REMARKS. 



The weather for the month was characterized by rather large 

 departures from the normals of a number of the weather elements, 

 the most noticeable being those of temperature. The large amount 

 of cloudiness and small wind movement were also abnormal features. 



A comparison of the records for the month' with our previous 

 August records shows the unusual features most satisfactorily. 



The mean barometer was nearly normal and no marked periods 

 of fluctuation were noted. The range was about twenty per cent 

 more than usual. The total wind movement was about seventy per 

 cent of the normal and the smallest for August excepting the record 

 of 1894. No gales were noted and the daily movement on a number 

 of dates was -exceptionally small. 



The mean temperature was more than six degrees below the nor- 

 mal and nearly four degrees lower than last year's record which was 

 the lowest August mean previously noted here. The maximum for 

 the month was less than any former August maximum at this station. 

 The maximum was about normal and the range about six degrees 

 less than usual. The mean dew point was about six degrees below 

 the normal and the relative humidity unusually high. 



The total precipitation was about twenty percent more than usual, 

 most of it falling during the storms of the 4th-sth and 28th-3oth. 



Corn has made fair progress during the month but is still so back- 

 ward that at the best the crop will be poor. Tobacco is a fair crop 

 and the plants are in fine condition. The apple crop is fair for the 

 off year ; other fall fruits are scarce. 



J. E. OSTRANDER Meteorologist. 

 F. F. HENSHAW Observer. 



