The sky was clear three days, nearly so four, cloudy thirteen, variable ten. The wind was east one day, south-east four, south one, south-west seven, west three, north-west five, variable nine. MEMORANDA. The month has been characterized by extremes of temperature, being colder and wetter than the average of last five years. The minimum temperature was eighteen degrees, and the mean temperature five degrees below the average. The amount of snow was unusually great, and double the usual average of water fell, preventing the gathering of corn, much of which rotted in the field, and little is left fit for use. SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER, 1857. Least hight of thermometer Greatest hight of thermometer......................................................... Least daily variation ................. ......... 15 deg. ................ 56 deg. ....... 41 deg. 2 deg. 29 de. 33 deg. 12 Greatest daily variation............................................ Mean temperature of month... Coldest day the 26th-mean temperature Warmest day the 8th-mean temperature.. Number of days on which rain fell........ Number of days on which snow fell... Depth of rain.............................. ............... 22 deg. 4 53 deg. 5 14 4 17 3.32 inches. 1.25 inches. 3.52 inches. The sky was clear one day, nearly se two, cloudy sixteen, nearly so one, variable eleven. The wind was east one day, south-east nine, south-west nine, west one, north-west six, variable five. MEMORANDA. This month was remarkable for clouds, being equalled in that respect but once in past six years. Mean temperature 5 degrees 15 minutes above the average of past five years, and slightly below that of December in 1852. Extremes of heat and cold less than usual. Rain below the average, but the excess of water in November and the slight evaporation has kept the fields ufit for labor, and the roads almost impassible. Wheat injured by thawing and freezing. SUMMARY FOR THE YEAR 1857. Least hight of thermometer, January 23 ............ ..... ..................... 9.35 64 Greatest hight of thermometer, July 17......................................................................................... 55 Number of days on which rain fell..................... 135 ....... 182 1.12 3 ft. 1.16 3 ft. 3.30 Greatest depth of water in twenty four hours, Nov. 7.............3.90 inches. The sky was clear twenty-seven days, nearly so fifty-six, cloudy one hundred and two, nearly so fourteen, variable one hundred and sixty-six. The wind was north-east thirty-eight days, east eight, south-east thirty-seven, south four, south-west one hundred and one, west twenty-three, north-west seventy-eight, north two, variable seventy-four. |