REPORT ON METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, WISLEY, 1914. 75 



January. — The phenomenally mild weather which had been so 

 remarkable a feature of the closing months of 1913 came to an end with 

 the opening of the new year, and throughout January the weather 

 was upon the whole colder than usual, generally dull, and very dry. 

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-Monthly Mean Deviations from the Normal of 

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drifted over us from the Continent, some very low temperatures 

 occurred over a considerable portion of the kingdom, and at Wisley 

 the minimum thermometer in the screen, four feet above the ground, 

 fell 17 degrees below the freezing-point ; whilst a thermometer laid 

 upon the ground fully exposed to the sky fell 8 degrees lower to 7 

 degrees Fahrenheit. But this extreme cold did not continue very long, 



