398 Meteorological Observations for September 1828. 



General Observations. — The weather this month has been generally plea- 

 sant, dry, and warm for the season. In the evening of the 4th instant we 

 had lightning and several claps of thunder, occasioned by a wind spring- 

 ing up suddenly from the North, and meeting an upper current from the 

 South, accompanied with a light shower of rain, which is said to have been 

 very heavy at Fareham, Portsdown, and Havant ; and the lightning killed 

 one man in Farlington Marsh while in the act of pitching hay, the iron 

 prongs of the fork having, it is supposed, attracted the electric fluid : it 

 also played vividly about the ships masts in Portsmouth Harbour, but 

 without, doing any injury. Sheet lightning occurred in the evening of the 

 8th, and was followed by a thunder-storm and copious rain about 2 o'clock 

 in the morning, with a strong gale from S.W. This storm it is reported 

 had a more awful appearance in many parts of the country northward. 



In the evening of the 12th, sheet lightning was observed in the eastern 

 horizon from 8 till 10 o'clock; also the following evening, when it ter- 

 minated in a thunder-storm. The 14th was a very cold day and night, 

 with a N.E. gale. In the evenings of the 19th, 23rd, and 24th, large lunar 

 halos appeared, with paraselenae on each side of, and 23 degrees distant 

 from, the moon's centre. 



The last brood of swallows departed from this place in a S.E. direction 

 early in the morning of the 24th, making their stay here thi3 year twenty- 

 two weeks and two days. 



The mean temperature of the external air this month, is about 1£ de- 

 gree warmer than the mean of September for many years past. 



The atmospheric and meteoric phenomena that have come within our 

 observations this month, are six paraselenae, four lunar and three solar halos, 

 forty meteors ; lightning on four different days ; and thunder on three ; 

 an aurora borealis on the 29th ; and nine gales of wind, or days on which 

 they have prevailed, namely, two from the North-east, one from the East, 

 one from the West, and five from the South-west. 



REMARKS. 



London. — September 1. Cloudy, with showers. 2. Fine. S. Cloudy. 

 4. Slight showers in morning: fine. 5 — 7. Very fine. 8. Fine: rain at 

 night, with much lightning. 9. Very fine. 10. Rainy. 11. Fine : stormy 

 at night. 12. Rainy morning: fine. 13. Fine: rain at night. 14. Cloudy, 

 with showers. 15, 16. Fine. 1 7. Slight fog in morning : fine. 18 — 20. Very 

 fine. 21. Fog in morning: fine. 22. Cloudy: foggy at night. 23. Cloudy. 

 24 — 26. Fine. 27. Rainy. 28. Cloudy, with heavy showers. 29. Stormy. 

 30. Fine morning: showery. 



Boston. — Sept. 1. Cloudy. 2. Fine. 3. Cloudy. 4. Fine. 5. Fine: 

 rain p.m. 6. Fine. 7. Cloudy. 8. Fine. 9. Cloudy: thunder, lightning, 

 wind, and rain early a.m. 10 — 12. Fine : rain, a.m. 18. Rain. 14. Fine. 

 15. Fine: a few drops of rain, with a beautiful rainbow, 9 a.m. 16—23. 

 Fine. 24. Cloudy. 25. Fine. 26. Fine : thunder and lightning at night, 

 with a few drops of rain. 27. Cloudy: rain a.m. 28. Cloudy : rain p.m. 

 29. Cloudy: very singular aurora borealis, 8 p.m. 30, Fine. 



Penzance. — Sept. 1 — 5. Clear. 6. Cloudy: rain. 7. Fair. 8. Fair: 

 clear : shower at night. 9. Fair. 10, 11. Rain. 1 2. Fair : rain. 13. Fair. 

 14. Fair: showers. 15. Fair. 16 — 20. Clear. 21. Clear: rain at night. 

 22. Rain. 23. Clear. 24. Fair. 25. Fair : rain. 26. Cloudy. 27. Clear. 

 28. Fair : rain. 29. Showery. 30. Showery. 



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