92 
mr. a. w. Preston’s meteorological notes. 
October. 
Rain fell on twenty-five days, but the total amount did not 
exceed the average. The month was cloudy, but the temperature 
was rather high for the time of year. 
November. 
This was the warmest November since 1881, the mean temperature 
being nearly 4- degrees above the average. The thermometer 
exceeded GO degrees on each of the first three days of the month, 
and it is but rarely so high a temperature is attained in November. 
With the exception of the four days 12th to 16th, which were 
very stormy and wet, causing floods in the valleys, the month was, 
nearly throughout, fine, warm and Iry, with only one night of 
frost at 4 feet above the ground. 
December. 
The mean temperature was, as in November, considerably above 
the average, and the thermometer rarely fell below the freezing 
point. The last fortnight was stormy, with violent gales on the 
22nd and 29th, causing much damage, and accompanied by great 
floods at Yarmouth and Lowestoft, and in the valley of the Yare. 
On the 29th the barometer fell 1.26 in. in twenty-four hours. 
There was a heavy snowfall (the first of the season) on the 30th 
and 31st, when the melted snow yielded 0.97 in., a considerable 
portion of which thawed as it fell ; but the drifts, particularly in 
the western part of the county, were considerable. 
The following Tables show the mean temperature and rainfall 
for the four seasons, together with those of the four previous years, 
and of a twenty-year approximate average : — 
TEMPERATURE. 
Seasons. 
1890. 
1891. 
1892. 
1893. 
1894. 
20- year 
average. 
Departure 
of 1894 from 
average. 
Winter (Dec. to Feb.)... 
Spring (Mar. to May) ... 
Summer (June to Aug.) 
Autumn (Sept, to Nov.) 
degrees. 
38.9 
46.8 
58.6 
50.2 
degrees. 
33.9 
44.0 
58.9 
50.9 
degrees. 
37.0 
44.9 
58.3 
48.8 
degrees. 
36.5 
49.1 
61.2 
50.0 
degrees. 
39.2 
47.7 
59.3 
50.1 
degrees. 
37.8 
46.2 
60.2 
49.5 
degrees. 
+ 1.4 
+ 1.5 
■ - 0.9 
+ 0.6 
Year 
48.0 
47.7 
46.9 
49.6 
49.2 
48.4 
+ 0.8 
