Annual Report of the Secretary of WarU.S. Government Printing Office, 1892 |
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A. W. Greely Amer ANNUAL METEOROLOGICAL SUMMARY Apr May June August barometer bulb bulletin Cairo central office Charleston charts Chattanooga Chief Signal Officer Cincinnati cloudiness in tenths Creek Crest stages compared crop cubic feet Date Dec Means DECEMBER 31 discharge ENDING DECEMBER 31 ETC.-Continued Feb Mar Apr feet per second forecasts Fort Barrancas Fort Smith high water instruments Iowa issued Jan Feb July Aug Sept June 15 June 21 June 30 Kans Kansas City Keokuk Little Rock locity Louis low water maps Marietta Maximum Mean cloudiness mercury Minimum Mississippi River month MONTHLY AND ANNUAL Nashville North Nov Dec Number of days Ohio Parkersburg Pittsburg predictions Prof rainfall record reports rise Shreveport Signal Corps square miles stations storms TABLE telegraph TEMPERATURE FOR 1890 Tenn thermometers tion tributaries tube Vicksburg voluntary observers Wash Washington Weather Bureau weather service West Wind
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