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1893, in which the number was sixty-one. The number of days 
in which the thermometer fell to and below the freezing point 
was 48, with aggregate degrees of frost amounting to 206 deg., 
100 deg. of which occurred in January and 40 deg. in December, 
as compared with an average of 80 days, and 400 deg. of frost.. 
On the whole the year was favourable to vegetation, for although 
the month of May and the greater part of June were cold and 
wet, those of March and April were considerably above average 
in point of temperature, and were characterised at the same time 
by an ample supply of moisture, while July was warm, and the 
autumn months were more than usually mild. 
Rainfall.—The heaviest rainfall of the year occurred on the 
Qnd of August, when 1:34 in. was registered. But there were 
other three days in which the amount exceeded | in., viz., on the 
16th February, when it was 1:30 in.; the 14th May, when it was 
1:08 in.; and the 21st December, when it was 1:09 in. The 
rainiest month of the year was February, with a record of 8°15 in., 
with 24 days on which it fell. The mean amount for that month, 
‘calculated on an average of eight years, is 2°44 in., so that the 
record for 1894 is quite abnormal, bging from three to four times 
above the average. In January, May, June, and November the 
rainfall was also considerably above the average. In January 
there were 24 days on which it fell, with an excess of an inch-and- 
a-half; on May 21, with an excess of | in.; and on June 17, with 
an excess of 1:20 in. On the other hand, the rainfall of July, 
August, September, and October was under average. The 
driest month was September, when 0:18 in., less than two-tenths 
of an inch, was registered, in contrast with an average of nearly 
3 in. (2°85 in.). There was a marked period of drought indeed, 
extending from the 22nd August to the 22nd October, fully 
eight weeks, during which the rainfall amounted to no more than 
0-58 in, as compared with an average of over 7 in. Notwith- 
standing this, however, the total rainfall of the year was 
considerably above the average of the last eight years, 42-01 in., 
as compared with an average of about 37 in.—that is, about 5 in. 
above average. The difference is nearly accounted for by the 
extraordinary excess in February. The number of days on 
which it fell (rain or snow) was 206, rather above the average ; 
but on 33 of these the fall did not exceed one hundreth of an 
inch, There was very little snow during the year, not half as 
