| Rainfall. | Days on which Rain Fell. | Cloudy and Partially Cloudy Days. | Clear Days. | |
| January, | 51/8 in. | 12 | 17 | 14 |
| February, | 2½ in. | 4 | 6 | 22 |
| March, | 2½ in. | 5 | 8 | 23 |
| April, | 2¼ in. | 3 | 5 | 25 |
| May, | 2¾ in. | 5 | 9 | 22 |
| June, | 6¼ in. | 8 | 12 | 18 |
| July, | 4½ in. | 17 | 22 | 9 |
| August, | 5½ in. | 11 | 22 | 9 |
| September, | 4¾ in. | 12 | 19 | 12 |
| October, | 1½ in. | 5 | 7 | 24 |
| November, | 2¼ in. | 5 | 11 | 19 |
| December, | 2¼ in. | 8 | 18 | 12 |
| Total, | 421/8 | 95 | 156 | 209 |
When the difference of rainfall for the years 1880 and ‘81 is taken into consideration, the equability of the temperature for the two years is a surprising and strange coincidence, there being less than one degree Fahrenheit in the average temperature of the two years. The rainfall for the year 1881 was 18 inches below the average on the Gulf coast, which is 60 inches, the difference between the years 1880 and ‘81 being 27½ inches; that of 1880 being 9½ inches in excess of the average rainfall. Although we had, comparatively speaking, no “rainy season” last year, vegetation and crops have not suffered from drouth. The vegetable gardeners hereabout were never more sanguine of large crops. Cucumbers, squashes, and turnips have already been shipped by them to New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and tomatoes in abundance will follow next month. Several truckmen from Fairbanks and other places on the Transit Railroad are this year engaged in raising early vegetables in the hammocks bordering the Manatee.
The mercury in the thermometer reached 96 degrees only twice the past year; and the lowest point indicated was 44 degrees on the morning of the 26th of January and 25th of November—12 degrees above the freezing point. We had no frost during the year. My alligator pears, cherimoyas, custard apples, sapodillas, sour sops, pine-apples, cocoanut trees, and other tropical fruits are growing luxuriantly; and my wife’s camelia japonicas, hibiscus, and rose bushes in the open air, are in full bloom. In conclusion, allow me to reiterate what I said last year: “If any locality north of latitude 27½ degrees can present a more favorable record, Braidentown will yield the palm.”
S. C. Upham.
SYNOPSIS OF THE WEATHER RECORD AT BRAIDENTOWN FOR THE YEAR 1882.
During a three years’ residence in Braidentown, I have kept a thermometrical record of the weather, also a register of the rainfall. A synopsis of my observations for the years 1880 and ‘81 was published in the Florida Agriculturist, in the months of January, 1881 and ‘82. In my “Notes from Sunland,” published in the fall of 1881, I gave meteorological tables of the temperature and rainfall at Braidentown, commencing with the month of January, 1880, and ending with March, 1881—fifteen months. In those tables I gave the record of the thermometer at 6 o’clock A. M., 12 o’clock M., and 6 o’clock P. M. For the information of my readers, and also of numerous correspondents at the North and West, I publish the following summary of the temperature and rainfall for the year 1882:
TEMPERATURE.
| Average temperature at 6 o’clock A. M., | 71° |
| Average temperature at 12 o’clock M., | 83° |
| Average temperature at 6 o’clock P. M., | 78° |
| Highest temperature at 12 o’clock M., July 19th, | 96° |
| Lowest temperature at 6 o’clock A. M., December 17th, | 38° |