METEOROLOGICAL NOTES DURING THE YEAR 1895. 97 



first half of the month, the weather beinsj extremely chancifeable 

 and disagreeable, with cold sleety rains. On the 3rd a sharp 

 thunderstorni occurred, followed bv a heavv rainfall. Over an 

 inch of rain fell on the 4T:h, and fully three-fourths of an inch on 

 the 5th. The heavv rainfall so flooded the rivers that a consider- 

 able amount of injury was done to the banks of the Clyde opposite 

 Glasgow Green, while a severe westerly gale on the 5th so kept 

 back the water that the works at the new weir were seriously 

 injured. During the gale a steam crane with scaffolding, used in 

 the erection of the new East-End Halls, or People's Palace, on the 

 Green, was blown down and smashed, displacing in its fall a large 

 portion of the masonry. After the 14th, the wind having veered 

 eastwards, the weather was more settled and dry, with occasional 

 frosts. As fogs frequently accompany frosts in the City, on the 

 20th one of particular density was experienced. Cold IST.E. winds 

 prevailed for a few days before Christmas, and on the 24th con- 

 siderable damage was done to shipping by a severe gale, while the 

 Anchor Line steamship " Eurnessia " was delayed six days on her 

 voyage home from America by the gales. There was a heavy fall 

 of snow on the 28th, which rapidly disappeared under the influence 

 of a S.W. wind which sprang up on the 29th. The closing days 

 of the year were very mild and wet. 



The rainfall amounted to 4*49 inches, and there were 15 drv 

 days. From the 1st until the 14th the winds were chiefly from 

 the west and south-west, and thereafter until about the end of the 

 month from the east and north-east. 



As in November, the readings of the barometer show erratic 

 changes in the pressure, many being sudden and sharp. The 

 lowest readings were on the 13th and 16th, when the pressure was 

 28*60 inches, and the highest was 30"10 inches on the 29th, while 

 during the last days of the year it was at 29*50. 



Frost occurred on thirteen days, the amount registered being 

 51°. The average maximum temperature was 40°, and the 

 minimum 32°, the former is 4° and the latter 2° lower than the 

 averages for December, 1894. 



"With regard to the rainfall of 1895, it is below the average of 

 the past twelve years. Only twice during that period has a less 

 amount been recorded. The amount resristered for the vear is 

 27*57 inches, falling in 153 days, while in 1894 the amount was 



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