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feature of the weather of the month. The gale was general, 

 and continued through a large portion of the day. It 

 attained a velocity at Boston of 60 miles per hour, reaching 

 its greatest force in the eastern parts of the State. 



October was remarkably pleasant. There wa.i about the 

 average number of days with rain, the amount of which was 

 fairly well distributed throughout the several sections of the 

 State. Excepting the heavy fall of the night of the 8th, the 

 storms were moderate. There was a week of overcast skies, 

 from the 6th to the 12th of the month, but for the remainder 

 of the period the days of sunshine and cloudiness were about 

 equally divided. The weather was abnormally warm, view- 

 ing from a point of mean temperature, the daily means at 

 Boston being in excess of the normal for two-thirds of the 

 days. The mercury ranged higher in this month in the 

 twenty-eight years covered by the national meteorological 

 observations, but only in the early days of the month. The 

 month was remarkable for a continuous moderate tempera- 

 ture and for the period in the later part of the month with 

 a maxima of near 80° for several days. At Boston the 

 maximum rose to 77° on the 2 2d and to 80° on the 23d and 

 the 24th. This record is not paralleled in October at this 

 station during the past twenty-eight years of official records. 

 Killing frosts and occasional freezing temperatures were of 

 occurrence from the 16th to the 22d, but excepting these 

 days there was a general absence of frost. Fogs were 

 prevalent in coast sections during the closing week of the 

 month. There were no unusual features shown in the 

 records of wind direction and velocity or those of air press- 

 ure. October, 1900, as a whole, will be remembered and 

 will go on record as a month of most pleasant weather. 



The weather during November was characterized by much 

 cloudiness, the skies being wholly overcast during 15 days 

 of the period. Sunshine predominated during 8 days, and 

 partly cloudy weather for the remainder of the month. Pre- 

 cipitation occurred on an average of 12 days, and the monthly 

 amounts were excessive at about all points or stations of 

 observation. The monthly average for the State was 5.06 

 inches, which is slightly more than an inch above the nor- 

 mal for November. It was chiefly in the form of rain, 



