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of sunshine, and the weather continued summer-like, with very- 
little rain till June 22nd. The temperature of these 41 days was 
in excess of the average to the amount of 3i° daily. On the 2;3rd 
June the weather became cold and changeable. Eain fell in some 
parts of Scotland and Ireland, but very little in England. The 
average daily deficiency of temperature from June 23rd to June 
30th was 3^. 
Upon the whole quarter of 90 days, the periods of warm weather 
being of longer duration than those of cold, there was an excess of 
temperature amounting to 1"4'' daily. The temperature in June 
rose to 90-2° on 22nd. In June 1846 the highest observed was 
91-1°, in 1857 the highest was 92-7°, and in 1858, 94-5.° 
The mean temperature of April was 48-9'', being 2-9° higher than 
the average of 99 years. In May the mean temperature was 53"4°, 
or 0*8^ higher than the average of 99 years; that of June was 
60"9°, being 2'7° higher than the average. 
The fall of rain in April was 0*27 in.; back to the year 1815 
there were three instances only in which the fall this month was 
less than this, viz., in 1817, 1840, and 1855, in each of which the 
fall was O'l in. only. 
In May it was 0*47 in., in the same month, in the year 1833, it 
was 0-2 in.; in 1844 it was 0-4 in., and in 1848 it was 0*4 in., and 
there are no other instances of less falls back to 1815. 
In June the fall was 0*39 in., and there is only one instance of a 
smaller fall, viz., in 1849, when it was 0*3 in. 
In the thi-ee months ending June the fall was 1-13 in., and there 
is no instance on record of so small a fall of rain in these three 
months; the nearest approach was in 1844 and 1855, in both of 
which the fall was 2-6 in.; in 1834 it was 3 in.; in 1837 it was 
3'3 in. ; and in 1842 it was 3-5 in. 
The fall from January to June was 5*21 in. ; the average fall in the 
first half of the year is lO'SB in,, therefore the fall this year was less 
than one-half of the average. The previous instances of small falls 
in the first six months of the year are 1855, when it was 6'5 in., in 
the years 1842 and 1847, when the amount was 7'5 in. in each year, 
and in the year 1840, when it was 7*6 in. ; so that the fall of rain 
at Greenwich in the first six months ending June, 1870, is smaller 
than in the first half of any year comprised between the years 1815 
to 1869. 
At the end of the preceding quarter vegetation was considered 
to be three or four weeks behind what it was in the last year at the 
same period. At the end of April vegetation was very backward, 
the pastures were bare and brown, and there was a general want of 
warmth and moisture for the growing crops. 
