380 REPORT OF THE ACTING METEOROLOGIST OF THE 
PRECIPITATION BY Montus Since 1882. 











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MOSS vale e sete 0.48 1.44 10.88 .| 1.58 | 4.45 | 4.12 |2.98 8.477) BAS S210. 1264 10. ne 25.89 
1884 Bate atiia’s 1.83 2.01 (2.54 0.83 | 2.49 | 2:01 |2°33-. "144° ) SeLT Ter On ean 22.30 
BESO ct aderee 1.07 0.61 |0.12 1.26 | 1.58 | 2.49 14.64 6.02 | 2.11 | 2.88 { 1.36 |0.76 23.90 
ESSGi eon ee oe 1.13 0.95 {1.13 | 4.18 | 1.92 | 2.92 |4.41 2.86 | 2.31 | 1.89 | 3.48 /1.22 27 87 
POST occ. 0.18 2.97 10.48 L<363P 0.46") 2.0L 16.37 3.03 | 0.75 | 1.74 | 1.58 |£.35 22.29 
BSSG coor as 0.78 1.04 /1.43 | 3.09 | 2.79 | 3.88 |0.99-++] 4.02 | 2.73 | 3.47 | 2.02 |1.24-+4 27.48 
» ike tot! Wet cae Mee 2.99-+] 0.25 |0.66+! 3.28 | 1.21 | 7.47 |4.56 1.98-| 2:60:38. 32 eSteee ie Ge 32.28 








From the above table we deduce the mean monthly rainfall ° 
since and including June, 1882. Below is a comparison of this 
mean monthly rainfall with the rainfall of 1889: 



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Mean monthly rainfall...) 1.21 | 1.324) Sy 2.22 12.13 | 3.574 | 3.588 | 3.024 2.118 | 2.15 | 1.956} .977 
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Rainfall, 1889...........-+. | 2.99+) 0.25 | 0.66 | 3.28 1.21 | 7.47 | 4.56 | 1.98 | 2.50 | 3.32 | 3.44 |*1.62 
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or 1889 + or — mean ..... | -1.78+/—1.074'—0.374) +1.06 0.92 +3.896 '+).972 |—1.044 40.382 |+1.17 |+1.484 |+ .643 
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Excess over mean for the year, 7.975 inches. 
This record of rainfall for the winter months is hardly to be 
relied on, since much of the precipitation is snow, which frequently 
blows over and out of the gauge, so there may often be a consid- 
erable fall with not enough lodged in the gauge to be appreciable 
when melted and measured. 
This objection, however, does not affect the summer months, 
which most concern our farm crops and animals. 
During these months, from April to October inclusive, the rain- 
fall for 1889 has exceeded the average for the corresponding 
months of the six and one-half years in five cases, and was less in 
only two, May and August. The excess for these months was 5.516 
inches more than the average for the corresponding months. | 
