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It did not fall below 32° during 1841, ’49, ’52, ’54, 
’56, ’58, ’60, ’62-5, ’67-’73, ’75, ’78, ’80, ’82-4, 
’88-’90, or in 34 years of the 50. 
The monthly range in May, also (not to say the 
range in 6 days !) was unprecedented, being 
52 ° The nearest to this Avas 50° in 1855 ; no other 
year approaches these. In 1846 and, again, in 
1889, the lowest minimum Avas 41°. In 1872 the 
minimum for the whole year was 26""; it was 
25i° in ’63, 25° in ’69 ; 24° in ’68. 
The high maxima [77° at Bootham, 76° at the 
Y. P. Society (Lond. Met. Office returns)] have 
been exceeded by eight records, —of 80° in ’47, 
791° in ’48, 76|° in ’61 ; 81^° in ’64, and again in 
’68 ; 79° in ’81 ; 77-6° in ’88; 77-2° in ’89. 
1855, it may be noted, was a cold winter and a cold 
year. It gives us, for instance, the following 
“ records ” for the 50 years 1841-90—the lowest 
maximum for any month (36° in Feb.) ; the loAvest 
min. in Feb. (1^°) ; and, as said. May (previous to 
this year) ; the loAvest monthly mean of the min. 
(20‘7°) ; of the max. (3T2°) and of min. and max. 
(25‘95°) ; (of these, indeed, the maximum is 1° below 
the average mean minimum of any month at all) 
32’2° in January. We also liaA^e the loAvest mean 
of max. and min. for May (45'8°) and June 
(50’0°); the lowest mean min. for May (37*7°) ; 
and finally the lowest mean, for the AAdiole year of, 
max. and min. 44’4°, or ten “records” in all. 
1855, indeed, was the coldest year, thus far, of the 
present century, with a possible exception from 
1826 to 1830, for which no records exist. 1816, 
Avith a mean of 44*7, ranks next. Maj^, 1891, Avas 
warm compared Avith May ’55, its means for max. 
min. and the two combined being 3'6°, 2*5° and 
2‘7° higher respectively. 
