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amount of the latter registered here for the 21 hours ending 9 a.m. 
on the lltli being as much as 1.95 ins., or the second heaviest fall 
for the year. The latter part of the month was somewhat finer, 
but there were not many days together without rain. The total 
rainfall of the month was 1.22 ins. above the average, and that for 
the year to September 30th as much as 3.80 ins. above the mean. 
October. 
So rainy an October had not occurred since the abnormally wet 
one of 1892. Rain fell on 27 days, and, until the 28th, there 
were not two days together without rain. The total fall for the 
month was 4.21 ins., which was 1.31 ins. above the average, 
bringing up the year’s excess to that period to 5.11 ins. The 
heaviest falls were .78 ins. on the lltli, and .57 on the 6th. The 
month was generally very cloudy and damp, hut the mean tem- 
perature was 3.2 degrees above the average. 
November. 
Rain fell again nearly every day, although the falls were lighter 
than those of October, and, in the result, the month’s total was 
only 1.87 ins. In the earlier part of the month fogs prevailed, 
and the air was constantly damp and stagnant. The frequent 
small falls of rain during the remainder of the month, and the 
great prevalence of cloud made the weather very uncomfortable on 
many days. The mean temperature was but little under normal, 
there being no unseasonably warm days or any very cold nights. 
December. 
The most remarkable feature of the weather of this month was 
the smallness of the diurnal range of the thermometer’s readings. 
No temperature as high as 50 degrees was recorded, and on no 
occasion did the screened thermometer fall below 26 degrees. Some 
snow fell in the first week, hut the quantity was very trifling, and 
until the 28th there was a constant succession of days of the same 
cloudy, damp, monotonous type that had so frequently prevailed 
throughout the autumn, indeed between September 1st and 
December 15th there were never more than two days together 
without rain. On some days the range of temperature between 
day and night was less than 2 degrees. Brisk east winds prevailed 
