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XI. 
METEOROLOGICAL NOTES, 1889. 
(From observations taken at Blofield, Norfolk.) 
By Arthur W. Preston, F. It. Met. Soc. 
Read 26tli February, 1890. 
January. 
The month entered with severe frost with thick rime. The 
frost broke up on the 9th, and the remainder of the month was 
comparatively mild, with occasional morning frosts, and with but 
little range of temperature. The last four days were very mild, 
with a somewhat humid atmosphere. The mean temperature of the 
month was about 2 degrees below the average, and was 35.9 degrees 
against 35.2 degrees in 1885, 35.3 degrees in 188G, 33.9 degrees 
in 1887, and 36.8 degrees in 1888; the month was therefore the 
fifth cold January in succession. Winds were very light, and the 
rainfall somewhat deficient. 
February. 
This month was an exceedingly coarse and winterly period, and 
a direct contrast to the earlier part of the winter. Entering with 
abnormal mildness, it gave place on the 2nd to several days of 
bitter gales from the north-west and north-east with heavy snow- 
storms, that on the night of the 10th being exceptionally heavy, 
and followed on the nights of the 11th and 12th with excessive 
frost, readings as low as 14.2 degrees and 11.7 degrees being 
recorded in the screen on those two nights respectively. A sudden 
