liol 3111. A. W. rUESTON’s 3IETEUKUHJU1CAL NOTES. 
JULT. 
This was the finest month of the summer, being for the most 
part extremely fine and warm, and 3vas very diy throughout. 
There 3vere, however, some rejietitions of the sudden changes from 
heat to cold alluded to last month, the most remarkable being that 
the maximum temperature of the 11th Avas 22 degrees higher than 
that of the following day, the amounts recorded being 82 and GO 
degrees respectively. The hottest days of the month, and of the 
year, Avere the 25th and 2Gth, the maxima being 85 and 88 degrees 
respectively ;'but on the 27th the thermometer did not rise above 
79 degrees, and on the 28th G7 degrees. Eain fell on nine days 
only, the total being but 0.86 in. Barometric pressure Avas high and 
steady throughout the month, the mean being 30.10. A remarkable 
absence of thunderstorms. 
August. 
Although the long and persistent drought A\diich characterized 
the summer continued throughout this month, the cold Avinds, Ioav 
temperature, and sunless skies, made the Aveather appear the reverse 
of Avhat is usually looked for in August. Anlicyclouic northerly 
Avinds continued fur nniny days together, the barometer remaining 
very steady, and although the thermometer rose to 71 degrees 
on the 10th and 78 degrees on the IGth, it but rarely cA'cn 
reached 70 degrees. The mean temperature of the month Avas 
about 4 degrees beloAv the average, and Avas 8 degrees beloAV that 
of the corresponding month of the previous year. The night 
temperatures Avere not, as a rule, much beloAV the average, although 
a minimum of 40 degrees Avas recorded on the morning of the 
14th, Avhen a ground frost occurred in exposed situations. The 
total rainfall Avas only 0.78 in., this being the third month in 
succession Avhich yielded less than an inch of rain — the total fall 
for the three months, Juno, July, and August, Avas but 2| in. 
The eflect of the drought Avas most marked, the leaves falling from 
the trees as in autumn, and lying in heaps by the roadsides. 
SEl’TEMBEli. 
Un the 2nd of this month the long-continued drought broke up, 
and a period of ex'cessivc rain set in, continuing to the end of 
November. Bain fell on tAventy-four days in this month to a total 
