MB. A. W. PRESTON’S METEOROLOGICAL NOTES. 
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March. 
The month was more genial than for several years past, and 
although no day was exceptionally warm for the season, there 
were a great many moderately mild days which kept the mean 
temperature high. The rainfall was .Go deficient, and there was no 
snow. Thunder occurred on the 21st. 
April. 
The second week was very cold, the mean temperature being as 
low as 40.9 degrees. Between the 5th and 12th, the thermometer 
did not once touch 50 degrees. Milder weather followed in the 
third week, but the last week was again exceedingly cold. "With 
the exception of .80 of rain which fell on the 5th, and which 
was accompanied by thunder, the falls of rain during the month 
were exceedingly trifling. 
May. 
So cold, wet and ungenial a May has not been recorded for 
many years, notwithstanding the capricious character of the month 
in many seasons, particularly of late. Down to the 23rd day the 
thermometer readings were so persistently low that it was difficult 
to realize that May had come, and the coldness was accompanied 
by much wet weather, rain having been recorded on 22 consecutive 
days. Snow fell on the 5th, 12th and 13th, and frost occurred on 
the grass on no less than twelve nights. The last week was more 
genial, but, on the mean, the month was the coldest May since 
1887, and the wettest since 1878. 
June. 
The first half of the month was cold, wet and ungenial, and 
attended by much thunder in the earlier days. A severe thunder- 
storm which commenced about 10 p.m. on May 31st, continued till 
about 2 a. in., on June 1st, accompanied by heavy rain, and very 
vivid lightning. The thermometer did not touch 60 degrees 
between the 5th and 12th, and on the nights of the 9tli and 10th, 
fell to 39.2 degrees and 36.3 degrees respectively in the screen, 
and to 32.6 degrees and 32.5 degrees on the grass. The last ten 
