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ward to Virginia and south Atlantic coast, but by snow thence northward over Northwest, Lakes, and southern New England.

Thirty-three cautionary signals were displayed at the Signal Service stations on the Atlantic coast and two on the Gulf.

RAINFALL.

As compared with the means of a number of years for the month, the rainfall returns from the Signal Service stations show a deficiency over the Lake region, Northwest, Gulf States, southern Georgia and South Carolina, New York, and northern New England, but an excess from the northern portions of Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina to Tennessee, southern Indiana and Ohio, Pennsylvania, and southern New Jersey, being most marked over Tennessee, also an excess over Rhode Island and eastern Massachusetts and Connecticut.

TEMPERATURE.

From the mean temperature for the month, taken from the Signal Service reports and compared with that for a number of years at the same stations, or close by, it is observed that the former has been somewhat higher over the Gulf States, eastern portions of Kentucky and Tennessee, and southern portions of Ohio and Indiana, by from 1° to 4°, but otherwise east of the Rocky Mountains, lower by 1° to 8°, being principally over New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.