Monthly mean soil temperature at the Reno Agricultural Experiment Station.

* After the first snow one, three and nine ceased going any lower, but the deeper ones still continued to fall about one-tenth of a degree each day.

Mean temperature, by decades, for the growing season of 1891..

The Carson Observatory is located east of the Capitol at Carson City, Ormsby county, Nevada, in longitude 119° 45' 43", latitude 39° 9′ 48′′, and altitude 4,660 feet above sea level.

The instruments used were made by James Green and H. J. Green, New York. The instruments consist of:

One mercurial barometer, height above ground.
One dry bulb thermometer, height above ground.
One wet bulb thermometer, height above ground.
One maximum thermometer, height above ground.
One minimum thermometer, height above ground.
One standard raingauge, height above ground...

7 feet 2.0 inches 14 feet 10.5 inches

14 feet 10.8 inches

15 feet 11.8 inches

16 feet 2.0 inches 20 feet

One Robinson's anemometer and self-register and one wind vane. All instruments are properly exposed and the observations are taken tri-daily at 7 A. M., 2 p. M. and 9 P. M., standard or 120th meridian time.

Barometer-(Corrected for Temperature and Instrumental Error.)

MONTH.

Temperature-(Degrees Fahrenheit.)

Carson Observatory, Carson City, Ormsby County, Nevada-Continued.

Extremes.

85.1 67.0 69.7 95.6 23 34.2
71.6 56.6 58.4
69.0 48.3 50.3
59.5 39.6 41.6 75.0
23.5 36.6 28.2 29.1 52.5
488.6 734.3 562.9 587.3 95.6.

90.6

21.9 44.9 29.8 31.6 57.5 25
5.8
10 47.5 18.5
27.6 42.1 32.6 33.7 55.3 13 3.6 25 44.6 22.4
33.6 49.7 39.8 40.8 67.5 20 | 18.4 29 52.7
28.7
41.5 58.6 46.3 48.2
76.4
30 23.2
60.9 32.5
50.3 63.1 51.1 53.9 77.9 11 29.4 9 67.2 39.0
56.5
70.9 57.5 60.6 91.8 30 33.0 20 73.1 42.0
83.2 66.1 69.4 94.5 24 36.5
85.2 47.7
86.9 46.2
27.5 25 73.6 41.3

79.6

19.4 3 70.7 31.1
12.6 15 61.4 24.8
-4.0 31 40.5 18.6

40.7 61.2 46.9

-4.0
764.3 392.8
48.9 Aug. 23d Dec. 31st 63.7 32.7

18.30 40.4 344.3 285.5 348.9 326.1 796.3 343.4 652.4 1.52 28.7

597.6

23.8 29.1 27.2 66.4 23.6 54.4 49.8

Dash (-) indicates below zero.

Tindicates precipitation too small to measure.

9 P. M.

Mean.

7 A. M.

2 P. M.

9 P. M.

Mean.

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