436 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
The coldest day in the year, at noon, was 50. This is about equal 
to the warmest weather in the three winter months at Philadelphia. 
There, the months of January and February sometimes pass without 
one day as warm as this. - 
The warmest month in the year, at sunrise, was August; then Sep- 
tember; then October. July, which is decidedly the hottest month in 
most other climates, was the fourth on the list, being considerably 
colder than October. 
The warmest month at noon-day was October; then August, Sep- 
tember, April and June, in the order named. July comes in with May, 
being the sixth on the list, and only a trifle’ warmer at noon-day than 
March and November. 
At 11 p.m. August was the warmest, and next comes October and 
September, before July, which is but a trifle warmer at this hour than 
November ovember was warmer in the evening than 
The lowest temperature in the year being 30, and the highest 84, it 
follows that the range of the thermometer was 54 the Atlantic 
range of 104. At San Francisco, in December, 1850, the thermome- 
ter was one morning as low as 28 degrees, and did not rise above 38, at 
noon, so that ice remained in the shade all day. This was regarded as 
an extraordinary degree of cold. Up to the present date, February 25, 
1852, the extreme cold of the winter has been 35, and it is probable 
that the coldest weather is past. 
compute from these data, the: mean temperature at any given places 
For example, ifthe place be: two degrees north of Philadelphia, you 
will find its mean temperature by deducting two from the temperature 
at Philadelphia; if south by adding, - 
_The coldest month in 1851, at San Francisco, (viz. January) was 
nine degrees warmer than the average of the coldest month at Phila- 
pa while iD cane as Gan Franenenen 
eleven degrees co/der than the a th at 
Philadelphia. nerege ef July, the wesmaeal mon 
At San Francisco, the temperature falls more rapidly in the after- 
noon and evening than in the Atlantic States, but Jess rapidly during 
the night. From 11 P. ™. to sunrise, the mercury at Philadelphia falls 
four or five degrees on the average, while at San Francisco the differ 
ence was less than two degrees, and in’ four of the months less than 
