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The Weather o/1891. 
Second Quarter. — The weather in April was dry and very cold 
throughout. The temperature of the air was below its average on 
nearly every day. The atmospheric pressure was above its average 
from the 9th to the 26th, and below on all other days. The fall of 
rain was small. The prevalent winds were E. and N.E. Owing to 
the cold winds and low temperature, vegetation at the end of the 
month was very backward. 
The weather in May was very changeable, but was mostly cold 
and unseasonable. The temperature of the air was generally below 
its average till the 10th day, when a sudden change to warmer 
weather took place, the 11th, 12 th, 13th, and 14th days being above 
their average mean temperature, that on the 13th as much as 11°, 
when another sudden change took place to colder weather, the mean 
temperature of the 16th, 17th, and 18th days being as much as 
12^°, 14°, and 13|° below their averages, and the weather continued 
cold to the end of the month. On the 13th the temperature around 
London was about 80° ; on the morning of the 18th the tempera- 
ture fell below 32°, and there was frost over the greater part of 
England, and the temperature about London did not rise so high as 
50° . The atmospheric pressure was below its average till the 3rd day 
and from the 1 5th, and was above, with the exception of the 9th and 
10th, from the 4th to the 14th. On the 18th it was as much as 
0°’62 below the average for the day. The fall of rain was above the 
average ; it fell on every day from the 18th to the end of the month. 
The most remarkable circumstance in the month was the fall of 
snow on the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th days, following so soon after 
the hot weather of the 11th to the 14th ; the snow fell at nearly all 
stations from Torquay in the south to Carlisle in the north, — small 
in quantity at southern stations, but to the depth of two to six or 
more inches in the midland, eastern, and northern counties. Vege- 
tation at the end of the month was very backward. 
The weather in June for the most part was bright, warm, dry, 
and seasonable. The temperature of the air was above its average 
till the 5th day, below from the 6th to the 16th, and above again 
from the 17th to the end of the month. The atmospheric pressure 
was below its average till the 10th, above from the 11th to the 22nd, 
and below again from the 23rd to the 30th. The fall of rain was 
small and below its average. There have been only 1 3 instances of 
as small or smaller fall of rain in the month of June back to the 
year 1815, viz. : — 
1886 it was 0 44 in. 
1865 it was 070 in. 
1827 it was 070 in. 
1877 „ 
0-70 „ 
1860 „ 
0-90 „ 
1825 
„ 0-80 „ 
1870 „ 
0-39 „ 
1849 „ 
0-30 „ 
1822 
„ 0-90 „ 
1868 „ 
0-60 „ 
1846 „ 
0-60 „ 
1818 
„ 0 70 „ 
1864 „ 
0-90 „ 
The month 
was favourable for 
agriculture. 
but from the preced- 
ing long-continued cold weather crops were generally backward, and 
hay-making at the end of the month had not begun. 
