REMARKS. 



The weather for April was disappointing to those anticipating an 

 early spring from the conditions prevailing during March. During 

 a greater portion of the month the progress of the season was very 

 slow and at the close of the. month it was very little if any in advance 

 of normal conditions. The departures from the normals of the 

 month were small and unimportant. 



The mean barometer was about one-eighth of an inch below the 

 normal and the range was slightly greater than usual. The fluctua- 

 tions were generally small and slow. The total wind movement was 

 about normal ; much of it coming from the northwest quadrant. 



The mean temperature was about one degree higher than usual 

 and only four degrees higher than for March. On the i8th a high 

 wind blew over the thermometer shelter on the campus and the Draper 

 thermometer was damaged so that for three days the hourly tempera- 

 tures were not recorded. The mean tri-daily records for the i8th, 

 19th and 20th were used in making up the mean hourly record. 

 The mean relative humidity was about one per cent lower than usual. 

 During the last third of the month the humidity was abnormally low. 



The total precipitation was about half an inch below the normal, 

 nearly the whole falling during the first third of the month. Rain 

 was needed when the month closed, the surface of the ground being 

 very dry. About the usual amount of cloudiness was noted. 



J. E. OSTRANDER. Meteorologist, 



S. C. BACON, Observer. 



