METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. i^i 



display mav be expected in 33 years, and on the 15th of November, at 

 an early hour, in Western Asia. Some suppose the shower may be here 

 next year, about the last of the 18th or on the 14th. 



December. Its first week was imusuaUy pleasant; ouh" once much 

 warmer than this, 39°.4, in December, 18-52, 44°.3, in last sixteen years. 

 On the 7th the temperature of the canal was 39° ; no ice on the 10th 

 but on the 12th canal fast frozen. Navigation was to be closed this daj- 

 by authority, which the season effectually secured this dav. In 1865 

 the canal was closed by ice on the 15th. Quite severe weather on the 

 20th, and on the 21st the temperature was 9° below at 7, and 10° below 

 7:30 A. ii. The lowest in December before, was 6° below in the last 

 week of 1851 and 1859. This is the coldest in December for the thirtv 

 years, as the 10° below in the State Meteorology for December, 1848, is 

 a mistake of only 20°. 



On the 27th, afternoon, from the west, began a severe and extensive 

 snow storm, with high wind, often a gale, sweeping the snow into gi-eat 

 drifts, from Ohio along our latitude and north into Canada West, east- 

 ward to Massachusetts and Boston. The wind continued over the 28th, 

 with much snow; and the raHroads were so blocked that cars from 

 Albany did not open the passage to that place tUl in the afternoon 

 of the 29th. East of Albany, the Central railroad was not open tiU a 

 day later, and hardly then did the cars make the regular trips in Massa- 

 chusetts. A severer storm has not been over this section, and eastward 

 to the Atlantic, for many years. The storm did not extend south to 

 New York, though some snow fell on the 27th, with rain to carry it off 

 on the 28th, and the streets were dry on the 30th. The snow extended 

 in this section only a few mUes to the south of Rochester. In the 

 western part of the State, it was felt south to Pennsylvania.- 



The productions of the earth have been plentiful, but not great crops : 

 only hay has been considerably below the average, and has been selling 

 here, this month, at from sixteen to twenty dollars a ton. The efforts of 

 speculators have been successful in sustaining high prices of many products 

 of the farm ; but prices have begtm to decline. With great general 

 health, and an adequate supply of agricultural products and other indus- 

 try, we ought to praise the Lord with frill and faithftd hearts for 1866. 



