560    CLIMATE    OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

seven in July, four in August, and once in September. The warm-
est days in the year were June 30 and July 1, when the mean tem-
perature was 84|°. The highest temperature was June 21, 98°.

The mercury fell below zero on 23 days, once in January, seven
times in February, four times in March and eleven times in Decem-
ber. The coldest day in the year was March 5, tvhen the mean
temperature was —9°. The lowest temperature was Dec. 25, —20°.
Rain has fallen on 88 days, snow on 33 days.

The whole amount of rain is 37.17 inches, being 2.95 inches
more than the average raiii-fall of 1871, and 3.58 inches more than
the annual rain-fall in the last 17 years.

The following table indicates the amount of snow in feet and
inches; rain in inches and hundredths ; and rain and melted snow
combined, in inches and hundredths (estimating one inch of water
as the product of one foot of snow), during the last 16 years.

THE WINTER OP 1872-3

The average minimum temperature of the ninety days was
scarcely more than six degrees above zero ; being nearly ten de-
grees below the average of the last seventeen winters.

During all these winters the number of times the mercury has
fallen below zero is as follows: winter of 1856-7, 15 times; 1857-8,
3, and once in March ; 1858-9, 9 ; 1859-60, 8 ; 1860-1, 7, and twice
in March; 1861-2, 7; 1862-3, 6, and seven in March ; 1863-4,7;
1864-5, 11; 1865-6, 11; 1866-7, 16; 1867-8, 32, and three in
March; 18fi8-9, 6, and five in March; 1869-70, 6; 1870-1, 20;

1871-2, 14, and twice in November and four times in March;

1872-3, 31.

The whole amount of snow fallen this winter thus far, beginning
with Nov. 22 is 92 inches; being 40 inches more than that of last
winter, and the largest quantity ever recorded by me prior to the
first of March.

In the winter of 1860-1, 110 inches fell; of which quantity 24