282 a year's weather. 



Our number of frosty days was a little above the average (9) for a 

 Truro December, and was characterised on the last day by a frost 

 which sank 9 degrees below freezing point. 



Our December rainfall was 4'68-inches in nineteen days, about 

 rive-eighths of an inch more than December, 1887, and the heaviest 

 rainfall we have had on a similar month since 1882. Popular 

 opinion seems a little astray here. Now, during the last three 

 months of 1882 we had exceptionally wet weather 5 in October it 

 rained in 23 days, 6*04; November, in 28 days, S'57 J an( ^ December, 

 in 28 days, 673-inches. 



If we take the December rainfalls for the last 40 years, 

 1848-87, we learn that the downpour of rain was heavier on 18 

 and less on 22 Decembers than last month. It is somewhat 

 curious that the 8th year in the decades for the same period are 

 characterised by heavy rains, e.g., December, 1848, 7*885 1858, 

 &ii; 1868,8-265 1878,6-175 1888, 4-68-inches5 and that about 

 two years preceeding and following these periods we have the 

 lightest recorded December rainfalls. 



From the 16th to the 21st the barometer fell 1-28 (over one 

 and a quarter) inches. The wind was gentle the first two days of 

 this drop, on the 19th it freshened, and after a considerable increase 

 was followed on the afternoon of the next day by a dead calm, the 

 same night the wind blew very strongly and this continued throughout 

 the depression of the barometer. During this fall of the glass one 

 and a quarter inches of rain fell. 



Our greatest heat was on the 3rd and 8th of December, 59 

 degrees 5 our coldest night December 30th, 23 degrees, a range of 

 temperature of 36 degrees 5 no wonder that many people shivered, 

 rubbed their hands and felt starved. 



January 2nd, 1889. 



The month of January opened with dry weather, which con- 

 tinued for the first seven days, and closed with rain, which fell on 

 the last eight consecutive days. Every night of these seven dry 

 days was frosty, one of them, the 3rd, being the coldest night in 

 the month, the thermometer registering 9 degrees of frost 5 there 

 were ten frosty nights during the whole month. The heaviest day's 



