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inches deop, giving tho landscape the appearance of mid-winter. 
This storm was purely local. The latter part of tho month was 
somewhat warmer, but throughout the month there was a remark- 
able absence of any really warm spring days, and the mean 
temperature was about 3 degrees below the average, thereby 
constituting tho fifth cold April in succession. The month was 
very dry, the total rainfall being under an inch, a circumstance 
which lias not occurred in April for many years past. 
May. 
This was a very line month, with a large amount of bright 
sunshine, and warm, pleasant days, on many of which there was 
no cloud whatever. Tho mean temperature was in fair agreement 
with tho average, but 2 degrees lower than May, 1889. Tho 
rainfall was also about the average, although tho only heavy falls 
occurred on tho 9th and 10th ; the latter part of the month being 
very dry and parching. Thunder occurred in the second and 
third weeks. 
June. 
Juno was a showery and rather unsettled month, with some 
fine days intervening ; but thero were but few really warm days. 
Tho thermometer only exceeded 70 degrees on four occasions, and 
did not once touch 80 degrees. The mean temperature was 
1 degree below the average. A great deal of cloud prevailed 
at times, and the humidity was eight per cent, greater than in 
May. Altogether the month was a great contrast to the line and 
brilliant June of 1S89. 
July. 
This was the third July in succession with a deficient temperature 
and excessive rainfall. The former was about 4 degrees below the 
average, and at no time did the thermometer approach 80 degrees, 
whereas in 1887 it exceeded SO degrees on six days in July, and 
in 1884 on eight days. Three consecutive years with no reading 
of 80 degrees and upwards in July is almost unprecedented, 
although not quite so, as it appears that a similar coincidence 
happened in 1821, 1822, and 1823. The rainfall has now 
exceeded 4 in. in July three years in succession, viz., 4.88 in. 
in 1888, 4.11 in. in 1889, and 4.12 in. in 1890; whereas the 
