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MR. A. w. Preston’s meteorological notes. 
although 2| degrees higher than that of the previous May, was 
about 2 degrees under the average. The night temperatures were 
much the same as last year, hut the day readings of the thermometer 
averaged about 5 degrees higher. It was the driest month of the 
year, and rain only fell on nine days. 
June. 
This was a i-emarkable month by reason of its great variations in 
temperature. The heat of the 3rd (85 degrees) was the greatest 
recorded in June for ten years past, whereas the maximum readings 
of the 5th, 18th, and 19th (52 degrees), and 30th (53 degrees) 
were, with the exception of -June 17th, 1886, when 51 degrees 
was recorded, the lowest day temperatures in any June since 1871. 
The heat of the 3rd was tlie more remarkable as it Avas confined to 
a very small area, and whilst the inliabitants of East Anglia were 
enjoying a tropical temperature those of Aberdeenshire were 
experiencing a summer snowstorm Avith the thermometer standing 
at 41 degrees. The cold in the north soon extended southwards, as 
on the 5th the day temperature Avas 33 degrees colder than tAvo 
days previously. The mean temperature of the month Avas about 
2 degrees under the average, and about 2 degrees colder than 
the previous June, although 2 degrees Avarnier than June, 1886. 
A sharp thunderstorm occurred on the morning of the 22nd. 
JULV. 
The weather of July Avas of a most exceptional character. The 
mean temperature Avas as much as 5.4 degrees beloAv the average, 
and looking through the records of the last 100 years only one 
duly (1816) appears to have had a loAver mean temperature. The 
day temperatures Avere most abnormally Ioav, the thermometer not 
having touched 70 degrees till the 18th day, and the maximum 
for the month (73.6 degrees) seems to have been the loAA-est since 
1802, Avhereas in 1887 the day temperatures in duly exceeded 
70 degrees on tAventy-five days. The night readings Avere more like 
tliose of October than July, there having been no Avarm summer 
nights Avhatever. On the morning of the Sth the thermometer in the 
screen fell to 36.6 degrees, an unprecedentedly Ioav reading for July. 
