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night. The temperature -with the exception of three or four days, 
scattered over the month, was below the average. The atmos- 
pheric pressure was generally below the average till the 9th, and 
from the 18th to the 22nd, and above on other days. The fall of 
rain was less than the average at nearly all the stations, and there 
was an excess of easterly and compounds with easterly winds. 
The month was favourable for agricultural purposes, but vegetation 
at the end of the month was backward. It was the coldest March 
since 1875, excepting that in 1883, when the mean temperature of 
this month was 36°-l. 
The mean temperature of the air for the quarter was 40'-3, and 
was 1°*5 above the average for the corresponding period of 114 
years. 
The rainfall measured at Greenwich during the quarter was 
.5*26 inches, and was 0-26 inches above the average amount in the 
corresponding period of 69 years. The rainfall was below the 
average in Januaiy and March, but in excess of the average in 
February. Eain was measured at Greenwich on 15 days in 
.January, 19 in February, and 8 in March, or on 42 of the 90 days 
in the quarter. The rainfall recorded at 41 stations of observa- 
tion ranged from 4-03 inches at Cambridge, 4-24 at Cardington, 
and 4-35 at Lowestoft, to 10-39 inches at Stonyhurst, 10-65 at 
Bath, 11-24 at Bolton, and 11-28 at Totnes. 
The number of hours of bright sunshine recorded during the 
quarter at the Eoyal Observatory, Greemvich, was 160-2, against 
201-4 and 148 7 in the two preceding corresponding quarters. 
Second Quarter (April, May, June). — The mean reading of the 
barometer at Greenwich was 29-700 inches, and was 0-082 below 
the mean reading for the corresponding period of 44 years ; the 
mean reading was below the average in April and May, while that 
in June was above the average. 
The weather in April was cold till after the middle, and warm 
from the 17th to the end of the month, the barometer readings 
were generally low throughout the month, the average pressure 
being reached or exceeded on nine days only. The direction of 
the wind during the first half of the month was E. and N.W. and 
it was chiefly S.AV. from the 17th. The rainfall was about its 
average ; snow fell on four difterent days. 
The weather in May was cold throughout the month. The 
atmospheric pressure was variable, for a few days together above 
its average, and then a few days below. There was an excess of' 
N.W. winds ; snow fell on six different days within the first ten 
days of the month. 
