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MR. A. W. PRESTON S METEOROLOGICAL NOTES. 
days of the month were very warm and bright, the temperature 
reaching 80.2 degrees on the 30th. 
July. 
This month was less warm and more cloudy than for several 
years past, but the rainfall was three quarters of an inch below 
the average. The thermometer only once rose above 80 degrees 
(viz., 83.4 degrees on the 15th), and some of the nights were 
unseasonably cold, notably the 3rd and 12th, the minimum on 
which occasions having been as low as 40.6 degrees and 41 degrees 
respectively in the screen, and 36.5 degrees and 35 degrees on the 
grass. Strong winds occurred on the 27th during the passage of 
a cyclonic disturbance from the South-west of Ireland to Norway. 
August. 
On the mean, this was the coldest August since 1888. There 
were no days of excessive heat, and in the first week there were 
some unseasonably cold nights. The prevalence of cloud kept 
down the temperature on many days, and the month presented 
a great contrast to the hot and dry August of the previous year. 
The rainfall was an inch above the average, but fell considerably 
short of the heavy fall of August 1900. 
September. 
On the whole, this was a very fine month, though some of the 
mornings were chilly, and, during the second week, there was 
a considerable amount of cloud. Some fine, dry days in the latter 
part of the month enabled the farmers to complete the harvest 
which had been considerably delayed by the cool and broken 
weather of August. The rainfall of the month was only about 
half the average, and it nearly all fell on the 2nd and 11th. After 
the 12th the month was almost rainless. 
Ootober. 
This was rather a cloudy and humid month, but although rain 
was registered on twenty-three days the amounts were generally 
small, and the total for the month was less than half the mean. 
