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and mean temperature was two degrees deficient. There was 
g:eat fluctuation of temperature at times, but there were very 
few really warm days after the first week. 
September. 
On September ist the barometer fell to a lower level than 
had been observed since the previous February, and a cyclonic 
storm of a severity but rarely equalled so earlv in the autumn, 
swept across the country. Much chilly and cheerless weather 
followed, and on the 23rd there was a remarkable local rainfall 
of 1.50 ins., which large amount fell in about three hours. At 
the end of the month a heat wave set in, and the last two days 
and nights were most unseasonably warm. The total rainfall 
of the month was .30 ins. above the average. 
October. 
The abnormal heat with which this month entered, formed 
a strange counterbalance to the unusual cold and great snows 
of April, six months previously, and the hot, cloudless days and 
blazing sunshine of the first week of the October of 1908 will 
not readily be forgotten. On the first four days the screened 
thermometer reached 76 deg., 78.4 deg., 77 deg., and 72.6 deg. 
respectively, the first three values being the highest on our 
registers for October, the previous maximum having been 
75.5 degrees in 1901. The weather continued warm till the 
15th, on which day temperature again reached 70 degrees, but 
afterwards it was cooler. The mean temperature of the month 
was 4.2 degrees above the average, and the rainfall over 50 per 
cent, deficient. 
November. 
This month was dry and pleasant, with some rather sharp 
frosts for so early in the season, in the second week. On the 
morning of the 10th the thermometer fell to 23.4 degrees in the 
screen and to 18.6 degrees on the grass, and on the following 
morning to 28.2 degrees and 19.2 degrees respectively. The 
rainfall of the month was 1.12 ins. below the average, and 
there was no snow. Mean temperature was high (about 
I degree above the normal) constituting the third warm 
November in succession. 
