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mr. a. w. freston’s meteorological notes. 
The mean temperature of the three winter months was 
0.8 degrees above the average. The rainfall of this period 
was 0.84 ins. in excess. The spring gave a great variety of 
temperature, the coldness of March and the severity of April 
being counter-balanced by the unusual warmth of May, 
thereby causing the mean temperature of the three spring 
months to be exactly normal. I he rainfall of these three 
months was 1.84 ins. above the average. The mean tempera- 
ture of the three summer months was half a degree deficient, 
and the rainfall 0.43 ins. in excess, while the autumn, which 
was very fine and warm, was 1.4 degrees above the average 
temperature, with a rainfall as much as 2.44 ins. deficient. 
The Year. 
The most noteworthy features of the year were the severe 
thundersquall on February 22nd, the extraordinary snow- 
storm at the end of April, the warm May, the cool August, the 
great outburst of heat at the end of September and beginning of 
October, and the short but sharp period of winterly weather 
in the last week of the year. The summer, although it lacked 
the fineness and heat of that of 1906, was a very decided 
improvement on 1907, and had several fine and warm periods, 
particularly in the former and latter parts of June, the last 
half of July, and the first few days of August. The cool, 
rainy periods in the middle of July and during the greater 
part of August and in September were compensated for by 
the great beaut}’ of the later autumn, which was one of the 
finest and warmest seasons on record. Garden fruits ripened 
well, and were abundant. The corn harvest, though rather 
late in commencing, and retarded by rain from time to time, 
was generally concluded in this neighbourhood by the middle 
of September. The total rainfall of the year was 25.16 ins., 
or about half an inch under the average. 
