THE CLIMATE OF MACKAY. 39 
RaInFatt, Mackay District, for the year 1880. 
Month. Town. Hollow. |Alexandra.| Cedars. ene g nrona Nebo. 
Jan --| 10°20 | 11°63 | 12°63 86 15°33 9°38 4°82 
eb -| 28°06 | 25°96 | 21°71 | 32:47 | 25°32 | 923-31 3°95 
March 5°04 4:04 46 5°52 6°31 1°52 0-00 
pril...... 19°29 | 10°97 | 14:21 | 14°61 | 14°62 9°75 4°05 
May ...... 1°79 0-99 1 14 1°64 0-00 0°13 
June ...... 1°14 1°71 29 2-20 3°57 0°50 0°86 
Se 10-08 8-26 855 | 10°06 | 10°57 6°50 | 12°57 
August 0-00 0-04 0°10 0-15 00 0-00 0:00 
ee 0°38 0-20 0-11 0°37 0°83 0:00 0-00 
October 3-05 1:07 1°62 2°67 1-03 1°33 0°98 
Ov. . 6°67 1-64 3°87 4°50 1°91 1-28 9°67 
Dass os 10°61 6°60 7°39 | 10°37 6°94 6°25 1‘73 
Tes 96°31 | 73-11 | 81:10 | 93°04 | 88-07 | 59°82 | 38°76 
Town rain-gauge at Tele egraph Office, 8 ft. 4 in. above ground, with 8 in. 
receiving surface ; about 3 miles from the coast. 
The “ Cedars” rain-gauge (M. Hume Black, Esq., M.L.A.), = ae eee 
ground, with 8 in. receivin ving surface, situated about 5 miles fr 
feos i ?) abo 
The ‘‘ Homebush” rain-gauge (F. H. Myddleton, Esq.), 3 ft, 6 inches 
above ground, with 8 in. receiving surface, miainted ‘about 124 miles = 
town ina S.W. direction, and about 120 ft. above the level of the ae 
The “ Bloo: msbury” rain-gauge (Tel. St.) issituated about 65 miles 
north of , Mackay, within abou t 6miles of the coast, ata tolerable aan. 
“ _ The “Nebo” ra: in-gauge is s situated about 75 miles from peonride across the 
range in a south-westerly directi 
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