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On the 4th of May the wind veered to S.E., and three tine, bright 
days were recorded; the thermometer reached 63.0 on the 5th. 
This was followed by very cold, dry weather, with N. and N.E. 
winds until the 19tli ; the mean temperature from the 7th to the 
19th was only 47.2, and the thermometer never rose above 57.0. 
The barometric pressure during the first three weeks of May was 
high and very steady; on the 21st it fell below 30 in. for the first 
time, and oscillated slightly at 29.7 on the next five days, attended 
by frequent showers of drizzling rain, with light S.W. and N.W. 
winds. On the 27th the barometer again rose to 30 in., and the 
remaining days were fine and much milder. The rainfall was 
1.47 in. deficient, and the smallest amount recorded in May during 
the past thirty- five years. 
June. 
The mean temperature of June was at about the normal 
value, but the winds were very variable, causing unusual 
variation in the day temperatures. The thermometer on the 
1st with a S. wind reached 71.5, but on the 1 0th with a 
strong IS’.N.'W’. gale the maximum was only 55.5. On the 12th, 
which was a calm day, 76.0 was recorded; but early on the 16th 
the wind veered to hf.W. and the maximum was only 56.8. This 
was succeeded by a change of wind to S.W. and S.E., and an 
increase of temperature to 77.2 on the 20th ; followed by a maxi- 
mum of only 62.0 on the 23rd with a N.E. wind. On the 28th 
the thermometer reached 81.2 with a S.W. wind, but at 5 p.m. 
the wind veered to N., a thunderstorm occurred at 8.15 p.m., and 
at 9 p.m. the temperature was only 56.0 — a fall of 25 degrees — 
and the maximum on the following day was only 66.2. The 
atmospheric pressure during June was unusually even, the monthly 
range being only half-an-inch, and that occurring in the first three 
days between 30.242 at 9 a.m. the 1st, and 29.662 at 9 p.m. the 
3rd : the subsequent oscillations were very slight at about 29.9 and 
30 in. The rainfall in June exceeded the average of the past 
thirty-five years by 0.19 in. 
July. 
The mean temperature of the first nine days of July was 
66.2; but the sky was generally very cloudy and overcast, 
