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of 80 degrees in East Anglia in the last week in September was in 
1832, when the thermometer touched that value on the 25th and 
26th. 
October. 
This month also presented features of unusual meteorological 
interest, having had the warmest day and coldest night observed 
in any October for a great number of years. On the 1st the 
thermometer reached 75 degrees in the shade, which was an 
altitude probably not recorded, in the tenth month in East Anglia 
since 1859, although in 1886 there was one reading which nearly 
equalled it. On the morning of the 2nd a decided change set 
in, with a considerable fall in temperature, and the reading of the 
thermometer at 9 a.m. on the 3rd was 31 degrees lower than on the 
afternoon of the 1st. This sudden and abrupt change was the 
more noticeable by reason of the temperature of the previous 
fortnight having been of unusual uniformity. Cool, rainy weather 
ensued till the middle of the month, when it became drier, though 
cold for the season. Winterly conditions, of a severity most 
unusual before the end of November or beginning of December, set 
in on the 22nd and continued until the 31st. During this cold 
period the thermometer never once exceeded 47 degrees by day, 
and by night it fell below the freezing-point in the screen on 
six nights successively. The lowest readings recorded were, in the 
screen, 25.4 degrees on the 28th, and 25 degrees on the 29th ; and 
on the grass 17 degrees on the 28th. or 15 degrees of frost. Much 
cold rain and sleet fell at times, accompanied by lightning on 
several evenings, and on the 29th there were falls of snow both in 
large flakes and of the granular type. The injury to vegetation 
was most marked ; trees in full leaf on the morning of the 28th 
were completely stripped by the evening of the following day, and 
dahlias and other tender garden flowers which were in full bloom on 
the former day were speedily transformed into blackened masses. 
November. 
The mean temperature was about 4 degrees above the average, 
and 9.6 higher than the previous November. The month was the 
mildest November since 1881. On the 16th the thermometer rose 
to 62.8, which appears to have been the warmest day in any 
