WIND.

The following are the total number of miles traveled by the wind during the month, and the greatest and average velocity per hour:

The averge rain for the different sections of the state for January, 1888, is as follows:

The table shows the mean temperature, and the number of days below zero, for the past eleven Januaries in southeastern Nebraska; they are found by averaging the numbers reported at the different stations. It also shows the highest temperature and the lowest recorded anywhere in the state, by standard, self-registering thermometers:

The following table shows the precipitation or depth in inches of rain and melted snow or hail, the number of days on which it fell, and the number of cloudy and of clear days. Days are counted cloudy when the sky is four-fifths overcast; clear when less than one-third. The last column shows the depth of snowfall during the month.

WEATHER SIGNALS.

The daily temperature and weather predictions of the Chief Signal Officer have been distributed by this service to the following stations, where flags have been displayed for the benefit of the public.

The following are the number of failures (F), and of correct predictions (C), both as to temperature and weather:

This gives, as the percentage of correct predictions for the state:

Temperature.......

Weather.........

Mean...

6

6

11

17

15

19

85.5

81.6

83.6

FEBRUARY.

The past month has been the coldest February for many years, although the extremes of cold have not been great, and there have been some unusually warm days. The precipitation and the number of rainy days have been almost exactly normal.

PRECIPITATION.

The rainfall map of the state shows a narrow strip along the Missouri river, from the Platte southward, together with the western fourth of the state, which has received over an inch of precipitation, reaching nearly two inches in the southeastern corner of the state. The rest of the state has received less than an inch, and the northeastern, central and extreme southern portions have received less than half an inch. The average for the state is about three-quarters of an inch.

TEMPERATURE.

The mean temperature of the state has been 10.20, which is colder than any February, and colder even than any January but one for the past eleven years. Yet the minimum for the month was only 19.4° below zero, while it usually falls to twenty and twenty-five below. Indeed, there has been but one February with a minimum as high, and no February with so high a maximum temperature, for the past eight years.

TABLES.

The following are the mean temperatures, precipitations, and number of rainy days reported by various observers :

The following are the highest and lowest temperatures, by self-registering thermometers and the mean humidity of the air:

WIND.

The following are the total number of miles traveled by the wind during the month, and the greatest and average velocity per hour:

The average rain for the different sections of the state for February, 1888, is as follows:

The table shows the mean temperature, and the number of days below zero, for the past eleven Februarys in southeastern Nebraska. They are found by averaging the numbers reported at the different stations. It also shows the highest tempearture and the lowest recorded any where in the state by standard, self-registering thermometers:

The following table shows the precipitation, or depth in inches of rain and melted snow or hail, the number of days on which it fell, and the number of cloudy and of clear days. Days are counted cloudy when the sky is four-fifths overcast, clear when less than one-third. The last column shows the depth of snow fall during the year.

WEATHER SIGNALS.

The daily temperature and weather predictions of the Chief Signal Officer have been distributed by this service to the following stations, where flags have been displayed for the benefit of the public.

The following are the number of failures (F), and of correct predictions (C), both as to temperature and weather:

This gives, as the percentage of correct predictions for the state: Temperature........

Weather...

Mean..........

86.2

............................................ ......................................................................... 83.3

84.8

MARCH.

The month has been one of low mean temperature, but with considerable range of extremes, and with abundant precipitation, more than usual of it falling as rain rather than snow, and not quite as well distributed through the state as usual.

PRECIPITATION.

The portion of the state receiving decidedly the largest rainfall is the southeast section, in which the precipitation averaged one and one-half inches, and reached from and over a strip of country extending from Saline county northeast to Washington county. For the north east section and lower Loup region, the precipitation averaged about two and a half inches, and for the Republican, Niobrara, and Upper Platte regions somewhat over an inch, although falling below one inch for the extreme western end of the state. The snowfall was four and a half inches, being about the normal amount for March.

TEMPERATURE.

The mean temperature of the past eleven Marches has ranged from from 29.2° to 46.8°, and for the past March it has been 29.5°. The highest temperatures during the same period have ranged from 55° to 86°, and the lowest from 22° above zero to 15° below. The maximum of the past month was 80°, and the minimum -15°.

SLEET STORM.

On the 24th commenced one of the heaviest ice storms throughout southeastern Nebraska that has ever been known, lasting through the two or three following days. During much of this time there was a heavy fog, and much of the time mist or drizzling rain, freezing as it fell, and loading trees with a vast accumulation of ice, sometimes two or three inches in diameter on small twigs even. All the more brittle trees were badly damaged, and telegraph wires and poles much broken. This storm is reported by most observers throughout the southern part of the state.