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mr. a. w. preston’s meteorological notes. 
July. 
This was a dry, but rather cool month. Bain fell on eight days 
only, and the mean temperature was 2 degrees under the average. 
With the exception of half an inch of rain on the night of the 
1st, and an inch on the 20th, the falls of rain were but trifling. 
There were no exceptionally hot days, although the thermometer 
exceeded 70 degrees on twelve days. It was the first July for six 
years in which 80 degrees was not touched, the highest reading 
for the month being 76 degrees. 
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August. 
The variations of temperature during this month were consider- 
able, both by day and night. On the 1 3th the screened thermometer 
attained 86 degrees, on three other days 80 degrees was reached 
or exceeded, and on many other occasions very high readings 
were observed. On the 7th the highest degree attained was 
only 58 degrees. By night the thermometer exceeded 60 degrees 
on three occasions, the minimum on the 15th being as high as 
61 degrees and the 27th 61.4 degrees; whereas, on the 29th, it 
fell to 44.2 degrees in the screen and to 39 degrees on the grass. 
The early part of the month was rainy, 1.33 in. falling in the first 
ten days. The remainder of the month was very dry, and the 
weather for the ingathering of the harvest (which commenced 
about the 16th) was of an ideal character. 
September. 
This month was remarkable for the excess of its heat, the great 
range of temperature, and the extreme smallness of its rainfall. 
The thermometer reached 70 degrees and upwards on sixteen days, 
75 degrees and upwards on twelve days, 80 degrees and upwards on 
five days, and on the 9th it attained 89 degrees, a height which 
seems to be the highest recorded for September, in these parts, 
since 1795 ; although in Suffolk 88.5 degrees was noted on the 
7th September, 1868, and 92.1 degrees at Greenwich on the same 
day, which latter reading was again observed at the same station 
on the 8tli September, 1898. A sudden drop in the temperature 
occurred on the 22nd, and the remainder of the month was cool, 
especially by night, the reading on the 29th (on the grass) having 
