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TABLE H.
Quarter ending
Children
under
five years.
Persons
from five
to
fifty-five
Persons
above
fifty-five.
Total.
Mean
Temperature
Fahrenheit.
Kainfall
in inches.
March
122
56
87
265
42.7
3.63
June
42
24
27
93
53.0
6.13
September
65
24
27
116
58.1
601
December
94
41
56
191
44.8
9.39
Total. 1882
323
145
197
665
49.6
25.16
Mean Temperature
for Year
1882.
Total, 1883
288
120
182
590
48.7
25.24
Mean Temperature
for Year
1883.
The weather during the year was somewhat exceptional: the early
part was unusually warm, the summer was cold and unseasonable, and
the latter part of the year very variable. January was very mild,
having a mean temperature of 40.4; there was less rain than usual,
and the ordinary north and north-easterly-winds were comparatively
absent. February and March were similarly mild; in April the
weather was warm and rainy; May was warm and dry, with less rain
than usual; June was cold, with a temperature nearly three degrees
lower than the average, and very little rain fell. July and August
were both cold months, as was September. October was warmer than
usual, and November was an average month, as was December. During
October the rain-fall, four-and-a-half inches, was greater than in any
other month, and snow fell on the 24th. In November the rainfall
was three inches, and in September two-and-a-half inches.
The highest temperature recorded during the year was 83.2 degrees,
and was reached in the month of August; the lowest was 24.6 in
December.
The mean temperature of the year was about one degree higher than
in 1881, but the rainfall was very nearly the same.