MR. A. W. PUEbTON’s METEOItOLOUlCAL NOTES. 
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XIV. 
METEOliOLOGICAL NOTES, 1887. 
By Arthur W. Preston, F. B. Met. Soc. 
Read 2 Sth February, 1888 . 
January. 
The severo winter weather which had prevailed throughout tlie 
greater part of the preceding month continued with no intermission 
whatever until January 10th, when a somewhat more genial 
temperature was experienced by day, but with frosts nearly every 
night. The mean temperature of the montli (33.9 degrees) was 
3 .J degrees below the average, that of the first eighteen days 
(30.2 degrees) being as much as 7 degrees below. There were 
frequent falls of snow, and all the first half of the month the 
ground was frost-bound. Frosts occurred on twenty-five nights, 
and good skating was indulged in for many days together. It was 
the most winterly month since the very exceptional January of 
1881. 
February. 
This moirth was fairly seasonable, giving many bright days with 
cold nights. The first and last weeks were warm, but the middle 
of the month was exceptionally cold, the thermometer firlling to 
17.8 degrees on the 17th. The barometer rose to a great height 
in the second week, and this high pressure was accompanied by a 
period of easterly winds of considerable force, lasting from the 6 th 
to the 16th. The most remarkable features of the month were, 
however, the great dryness, and the extraordinary high state of the 
