Meteorological Abstract for trie Year 1894. 



Observations made at McGill College Observatory, Montreal, Canada. — Height above sea level 187 ft. Latitude N. 45° 30' 17". Longitude 4 h 54 m 1855 s W. 



C. H. McLEOD, Superintendent. 





S 



February 



March 



12.99 



12 05 

 :-!l mi 



May 



June 



July 



SO H4 



05 S3 



OS 7.3 



August 



September I 5» 65 



October 48.62 



November 30. 23 



December 22.72 



ans for 20) 

 ears ending > 



ieo. ;;i, iso4 S 



41. 





10 ss 



12 :u 



IS 52 

 18.111 

 17.10 

 17.82 

 Hi SO 

 10 22 



13 07 

 12 27 





















s 



S3 



s 



1271 



30.776 



29-273 



It 133 



30.S33 



211 102 



99 io 



311 4 'J 



29.390 



(H77 



30 3S0 



29 (12! 



•H 3i 



311 372 



2*1 130, 



8895 



311 213 



29 377 



2507 74.5 



S. 7S-' \V. 

 S. 5(1" W. 

 S. 40° W. 

 N 10 W. 

 S. 5o« W. 



S. w. 



S. 5S VV. 

 S 03 W. 



S. 31° W. 

 S. 02° W. 

 8. 0S° >v. 



s. 79- w. 



15 18 



§45 4 



17.98 



120 



81 



39.67 









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•oil 



I'll' 



o"§ £ 



ou & 



fe sg 







2 



20 



1 



11 



3 



17 





8 





17 





17 





19 





16 





14 



1 



23 





17 



■a 



1 — 



200 



___ 



17 



16 



200 



January . 

 February. 

 March 



June 



July 



August. . . 

 September. 

 October. .. 

 November . 

 December. 



Sums for 18 



Means for 20) 

 years ending? 

 Dec. 31, 1894. N 



'-• Barometer readings reduced I" "2" Fall, and (,, sea level, t Inc'.es of mercury, t Saturation lull. ? For 13 years only. II "+" indicates thai the temperali 

 for 20 years inclusive of IS94. Tl,e inunthlv men ' - are derived fr.un readings I a ken everv HO hour beginning with 3 h. in. Eisicrn St indard lime. The 

 above the ground and 810 teet above the sea level a For 8 years only. 



The greatest heat was S9 S nn Jul) 2: the greatest cold was 19.5 below /.em on February 10. The extreme range of temperature was therefore 109.3. Greatest range of the thermometer in one day was 39 5 on Januuary25; least 



range was 5 2 on March 22. The warmest dav "as Julv 2S, when the mean temperature was SO IS The Ide.st day was February 21. when the mean tempera tore was 12. as he low zero The highe-t barometer reading was 30.833 



on February 24. Lowest barometer reading wa- 29.174 on I'ctoher 17. giving a range of 1.059 fur the year. The lowest re'ath e huiniditv was 17 on April 14. The greatest mileage of wind recorded in one hour was 09 on January 

 30, and the greatest velocity in gusts was at the rate of s4 in. p. h. on .lamia iv .■;<. The total mileage of wind was I31.4S2 The resultant direction of the wind for the year is S.62 W., and the resultant mileage was 50,870. 

 Auroras were observed on lonights. Fogs on 14 days. Thunder , -tonus ,,n 2o days. Lightning without thunder on 7 days. Lunar halos or coron is on 14 nights. The sleighing of the winter closed in the city on March 25. The 

 firs I appreciable snowfall of the autumn was on November 5. The first permanent sleighing of the winter was on December 27. 

 NoTK.— The yearly means of the above, are the averages of the monthly means, except for (he velocity of the wind. 



