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the 26th July, when 1:48 in. was registered. But there were 
other two days in the same month when the fall exceeded one 
inch, viz., the 2nd, in connection with a thunderstorm, and the 
25th, when the records were 1:05 in. and 1:15im. These were 
the only occasions on which the fall exceeded one inch. July was 
the wettest month in the year, with a total of 6:28 in., spread 
over 21 days; and the next wettest were August, with 5:73 in., 
and November, with 5-41 im. These records were considerably 
above average, and those of March and April were slightly so. 
The rainfall of all the other months was under average, and some 
of them in a remarkable degree. ‘The driest month was May, in 
which only 0-21 in., or less than a quarter of an inch, fell. The 
next was September, with very little more than half an inch, viz., 
0°56 in., and February had also less than an inch—0-81 in. In 
these three months the rainfall amounts to no more than 1°58 in., 
while the ordinary mean for them is 7:13 in. There were several 
periods of drought during the year. The first was in February. 
Between the 8th and the 28th of that month, a period of about 
three weeks, rain fell only once, and only to the amount of four- 
hundredths of an inch. Again, in May and June, there was an 
extended period beginning with the Ist of May and continuing to 
about the 25th of June, a period of about eight weeks, during 
which the rainfall did not exceed 0-48 in. The rainfall for the 
whole year, 35:03 in., shews a deficiency from the average of the 
last nine years of about 2 in. 
HYGROMETER.—The mean dry bulb for the year was 46:6 
deg., almost exactly the same as the mean annual temperature, 
which was 46°7 deg. Mean wet, 44:2 deg., giving for the dew 
point 41-3 deg., and for the relative humidity 82—saturation being 
equal to 100. The only remark to be made upon this is that the 
mean temperature of the dry bulb is about 1 deg. under average, 
corresponding with the similar deficiency in the mean temperature 
of the year, and that the relative humidity of 82 exhibits a like 
correspondence with the diminished rainfall, the average of nine 
years being 83. 
THUNDERSTORMS were not frequent during the year. So far 
as I have observed, there was one in April on the 24th, one in 
May, also on the 24th (which was repeated to some extent on the 
following day), two in July in the beginning of the month, two in 
August on the 6th and the 27th, and one in September on the 9th. 
