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METEOROLOGICAL NOTES, 1883. 
By A. W. Preston. 
Read 25th March, 1884. 
Januarv. 
The thermometer, on the first day of 1883, stood at 55 degrees, 
a height which was not again attained until April 1st, The weather, 
until the 24th, was variable, but mild and open, and with a con- 
siderable rainfall. On the 24th it became colder, and snowstorms 
occurred on that evening, and on the morning of the 27th. 
JNlildness, however, again set in, and continued to the end of the 
month. The barometer which, on the 23rd, stood at 30.56, by 
the morning of the 26th fell to 20.10, and these readings were 
the extremes of the month. The highest temperature recorded 
was 55 degrees on the 1st, and the lowest 29 degrees on the 23rd, 
the mean of the month being 39.1. Frosts occurred on nine nights 
only. The wind was chiefly from the south and west ; and the 
rainfall 2.30 in. Rain fell on eighteen days; the heaviest fall on 
one day being, on the 24th, 0.51 in. 
February. 
The first fifteen days of this montli were characterized by 
continued mildness and excessive rainfall, no less than 2.25 in. of 
rain falling during that period. The remainder of the month was 
dry, warm, and sunny, and of a character rarely to be met with 
so early in the year. No remarkably high readings of the 
thermometer were registered, but the unusual amount of bright 
sunshine and absence of rain rendered the second half of this 
month a pleasing contrast to the first. The highest reading of the 
barometer was on the 23rd (30.68), and the lowest on the 2nd (29.08). 
