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daily minimum reach this temperature. On only eight days did the daily tempera- 

 ture fall below 40 °. The coldest day (31st,) had a mean temperature of 33.5, 

 and its minimum, the coldest of the month, was 22.5. The highest temperature 

 of the month, was 67 on the nth. In 1864, Engelman observed a January 

 temperature of 72, but the mean monthly temperature was 29 ° , the coldest tem- 

 perature of that month being minus 22.5. Not only has the past month been 5 ° 

 warmer than any other January in forty-three years, but it has been very uniform 

 Vegetation near St. Louis is, nevertheless, little affected, and the fruit buds are, as 

 a rule, safe as yet. The silver-maple is reported in bloom at Allenton, (St. Louis 

 county). In the southern part of the state, vegetation has been advanced, and 

 may receive injury from future cold weather. The rainfall has been least, (less 

 than one inch,) in the extreme northwest, and in the large area drained by the 

 Osage and Gasconade rivers and their tributaries, and extending up the Missouri 

 as far as Glasgow. In the extreme southwest, the rainfall has reached between 

 six and seven inches. Marble Hill, ( in the southeast,) reports three inches of 

 snow on the 12th, but at no other station has the snowfall of the month exceeded 

 one-tenth of an inch. 



KANSAS WEATHER REPORT FOR JANUARY, 1880. 



BY PROF. F H. SNOW, KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY. 



The warmest January, and, except December, 1877, the warmest winter 

 month in our thirteen years' record. The month was also remarkable for the entire 

 absence of snow, and the unprecedented number of fogs. The high temperature 

 has caused many insects to come forth from their winter quarters, including bees, 

 flies, beetles and moths. Our fruit-growers should search for and destroy the 

 wingless females of the canker-worm moth, which, in a few localities, are now 

 depositing their eggs upon the apple trees. 



Mean temperature, 41.23 degrees, which is 14.84 degrees above the average 

 January temperature of the twelve preceding years. The highest temperature was 

 67 degrees, on the 18th; the lowest was 20.5 degrees, on the 31st; monthly range, 

 46.5 degrees; mean at 7 a. m., 35.37 degrees; at 2 p. m., 48.42 degrees; at 9 

 p. m., 40.64 degrees. 



Rain, 1.80 inches, which is 0.51 inches above the January average. Rain 

 fell on 3 days. There was no snow, but a small amount of sleet preceded the rain 

 of the 29th. 



Mean cloudiness, 48.49 per cent of the sky, the month being 0.64 per cent 

 cloudier than the average. Number of clear days, 15 (entirely clear, 2) ; half clear, 

 7 ; cloudy, 9 (entirely cloudy, 7). Mean at 7 a. m., 59.05 per cent; at 2 p. m., 

 41.29 per cent; at 9 p. m., 45. 16 per cent. 



Wind — southwest, 25 times; northwest, 24 times; southeast,' 13 times; north- 

 east, 12 times; north, 3 times; south, 8 times; east, 6 times; west, twice. 

 The entire distance traveled by the wind was 12,861 miles, which gives a mean 



