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March 2-91 -ins 3-90-ms l-07-ins. 



April 2-61-ins 2-48-ins 1-36-iiis. 



May 2-45-ins. ... 2-26-iiis ]-55-ins. 



June 2-39-ins 2-86-ins 1 83-ins. 



July 2-60-ins r62-ins l'76-ins. 



August 3'01-ins 6'48-ins 4-40-ins. 



September.. 3 49-ins 3 03-ins l*90-ins. 



October .... 4-8l-ins 8'55-ins 5'70-ins. 



Total ... 32-50-ins 34-80-ins 26-27-ins. 



We are 8|- inches drier than last year for the same months, 

 and 6^ inches below the average. 



Weather for October, i79^ — '^^^ hundred years ago: — I2th, 

 gathered the orange pippin apple, whilst on the eastern aspect of 

 the tree was a considerable quantity of bloom ; the fruit has very 

 little flavour. 14th, severe lightning. 15th, thunder and lightning. 

 24th, hoar frost and some little ice ; many potatoes yet remain in 

 the ground, which have received no inconsiderable damage, numbers 

 being quite rotted ; very little wheat yet sown 3 carrots of a large 

 size in general, the following are the dimensions of a particular one 

 on common ground: — Length, 19 inches 5 circumference, 16 

 inches 5 weight, 4I- lbs. avoirdupois. Springs have never failed, 

 but kept continually running ; the trees begin to be despoiled of 

 their foliage j leaves of the hawthorn quite gone. Fall of rain this 

 month, 5^ inches. 



November 22nd, 1892, 



NOVEMBER. 



Our average November rainfall for forty years is 4'37 

 inches : the average of the last ten years, 4 '83 inches ; this 

 month it has only reached 3-11, about 1^ inches less than usual. 

 It is the driest November since 1884, and is one of the six driest 

 Novembers for over forty years. During the same month in 

 1852 it rained 10-51, and in 1888, 8-89 inches. 



The chief winds have been N.E. and S.W. Taking the 

 cloud, and considering 10 to represent a sky entirely covered 

 with cloud, and to shew a cloudless sky, the average cloudiness 

 of the month was 5-6. 



It was a warm November ; certainly we had frost on four 

 nights under cover, and on one of these nights an exposed 



