650 
the 19th (30.30), lowest on the 10th (29.57). The highest 
temperature recorded was 80 degrees on the 13th, and the lowest 
45 degrees on the 19th ; the mean of the month being 62.3. The 
wind was principally from the west, and rain fell on eight days, 
the total fall for the month being but 0.77 in. 
September. 
September opened with one of the severest storms of wind and 
rain that had been experienced for a long time past. On the 
morning of the 2nd the barometer fell to 28.95, and a furious 
f^ale prevailed all day. The weather continued rather unsettled 
to the 11th, but a return of the fine weather which characterized 
August then set in, and continued to the 24th, and during this 
fortnight no rain whatever fell, except about a quarter of an inch 
on the evening of the 20th. Many warm and cloudless days 
occurred in succession, the thermometer on some occasions recording 
upwards of 70 degrees. The last week of the month was unsettled. 
The barometer was highest on the 13th (30.20), and lowest on the 
2nd (28.95), this being the lowest reading throughout the year. 
The thermometer registered 72 degrees on the 17th and 19 th, and 
43 degrees on the 5th and 29th, the mean temperature being 58. 
The wind was chiefly westerly, and rain fell on sixteen days, 
the heaviest fall being 0.35 in. on the 16th. Total rainfall of the 
month, 3.08 in. 
October. 
An extraordinary quantity of rain fell during the first five days, 
no less than 2.56 in., which was more than two-thirds of the total fall 
of the entire month. The weather then became somewhat change- 
able and unsettled, but the last week of the month was very fine 
and warm. The barometer attained the height of 30.44 on the 
8th, and fell to 29.36 on the 3rd. Highest temperature, 63 degrees 
(25th) ; lowest, 37 degrees (21st) ; mean, 51.2. The wind was 
principally from the south and west. Eain fell on seventeen days; 
the heaviest fall (0.87 in.) on the 1st ; and the total for the month, 
3,52 in. This was the wettest month of 1883, but the total fall 
was not much more than half that of October, 1882. 
