Of course, at the time the people! wondered if' any lower temperature had been recorded, and Archdeacon Moule remembered a severe winter in 1862 and, records being searched, it was found that a snowstorm in that winter had lasted 58 hours and deposited 30 inches of snow, but the thermometer dropped only to 19, It was further stated that a lower reading occurred in 1873, but the record was not given. It has been stated, however, that the lowest reading of which we have any record was 6, but what year it occurred cannot be ascertained.
The summer of 1892 was an' exceptionally hot one, and no doubt some weather experts will say that the blizzard was the natural sequence.
Typhoon The worst blow Shanghai has ex-Ferienced during the past 40 years, took place on July 28, 1915, when neatly all the trees in the Public Garden were blown down, and a big steamer driven on to the stone' bunding of the Garden. Small craft' and pontoons along the Bund suffered badly and the scene of wreckage reminded one of pictures of the ruin caused by hurricanes in the West Indies.
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