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SANITARY CHRONICLES, 1895.
June Quarter.
April was a wet month, of moderate temperatures.
Rain fell for 18 days, the total rainfall being 2.32 inches.
Three out of the five weeks were fairly sunny. The minimum
temperature was 33o.0; maximum 65o.0; mean 49°.4.
May was exceptionally fine. The sunshine never fell
below 19°.5 per cent., and during one week attained 72 per
cent. On four days only rain fell (0.34 inch). The minimum
temperature was 38°.3; maximum 68°.5; mean 56°.5.
June was also bright and warm. On only four days did
any rain fall, the total rainfall amounting to 0-39 inch.
The sunshine was never less than 41 per cent., and attained
a maximum of 72 per cent.
September Quarter.
July was unsettled and rainy; rain fell on 17 days, to the
total amount of 2.57 inches. During three of the five
weeks there was bright sunshine, from 2.1 up to 16.1 per
cent., but during the other two weeks the sky was mostly
overcast. The minimum temperature was 50o.l; maximum
83°.8; mean 63°.7.
August was exceptionally wet, no less than 4.19 inches
of rain fell in 16 days. Temperatures Avere moderate; the
minimum temperature being 48°.3; maximum 79°;
mean 63º.2.
September was a fine month, with but little rain save
a violent thunderstorm on the 7th; no less than 1.43 inch of
rain fell in a few hours, so that this one storm contributed
almost the whole rainfall of the month, the total being 1.69
inch. The minimum temperature was 43°.5; the maximum
78o.0; the mean 62°.5.
December Quarter.
A wet but at the same time a bright October followed.
The sunshine ranged from 23 to 41 per cent. On 19 days
rain fell, to the amount of 4.58 inches. The temperatures
were moderate, the minimum being 378.5; the maximum
68°.1; and the mean 53°.7.