Table showing the amount of rain and melted snow, in inches, for each month and year from 1872-1882, inclusive, at Davenport, Iowa.

1872.

1873.

1874.

1875.

1876.

1877.

1-78.

1879.

1880.

1881.

1882.

0.13

0.101.825.064.463 783.808.915.30 0.61 1.86 0.61 36.44 3.56 0.771.433.966.37 2.162.37 0.511.00 1.48 0.633.84 28.08 4.34 0.741.34 2.643.455.373.103.68 7.861.30 2.47 0.50 36.79 0.38 1.09 0.882.30 2.01 4.919.361.73 4.05 1.63 0.57 3.08 31.99 3.473 634.355.396.70 4.25 4.824.275.50 1.54 2.54 0.36 46.82 1.41 0.073.91 3.282.825.803.423.211.45 4.882.53 2.32 35.10 0.361.09 2.212.895.144.362.195.07 1.824.21 0.90 0.9231.21 0.791.09 1.80 1.545.834.575.87 4.33 1.43 0.92 4.701.0233.89 3.13 1.722.68 4.50 5.097.214.315.90 4.870.94 1.231.15 42.73 1.344.143.33 1.11 1.347.94 0.91 0.835.59 6.852.19 1.71 37.28 0.90 0.62 2.903.155.498.434.412 291.393.751.47 1.78 36.60

Means of 11 years. 1.80 1.37 2.42'3.26'4.435.344.05 3.70 3.66 2.56 1.921.58 36.08

No. rainy days.

No. days snow fell.

TABLE No. II.

Table showing the mean temperature for each month and year from 1872-1882, inclusive, at Davenport,

Iowa.

1872..

1873..

1874..

1875..

1876..

1877..

1878...

1879..

1880..

1881.

1882..

22.6 27.132.351.2,61.7,72.5 75.574.264.8 51.632.418.248.7 17.123.4 36.546.959.177.775.278.1 62.3 48.333 529.649. 23.725.934.341.264.3 72.677.574.365.152.336.327.949.6 9.410.430.145.760.5 68.473.669.361.7 48.633.4 34.545.5 29.930.132.150.6 62.1 69.075.474.662.5 49.235.215.448.8 16.836.328.749.461.6 69.175. 72.567.153.5 37.142.550.8 30.136.748.254.7 57.5 68. 78. 74. 65.151.842.3 20.352.2 18.425.539.550.553.869.576.971.760.559.839.923.849.2

37.632.937. 49.767.272.274.574.562.850.730.721.851. 13.8 19.9 28.844.669. 69.777.677.269.856.539.738.250.4 28.9 40.3 40.351.355.6 68.670.572.264.457.742.228.251.7

Means of 11 years. 22.628. 35.3 48.761.1 70.775,4‍73.9'64.252.7 36.6 27.3'49.7

Table showing the annual rainfall at Sioux City, Iowa. These results are furnished by the Hon. Geo. H. Wright, of Sioux City.

and

Meteorological record at Grinnell, Iowa, for four years, furnished by E. G. Worden, giving the mean monthly temperature at noon, the annual rainfall for nearly four years.

C.

Rainfall for first seventeen days. (Tornado.)

d. Average for twenty-five days.

e. Average for twenty-eight days.

f. Average for first twenty-three days.

g. Rainfall for first twenty-three days.

h. Average for first twenty days.

i. Average for last fourteen days.

k. Rainfall for last fourteen days.

The mean annual rainfall for three years is 44.24 inches.