!M0 Mr, IIoiDard*s Meteorotogicai Journal. [March, 1821, 



REMARKS. 



Fint Month. — \. A strong cold wind. 2-*4. Cloudy: bleak. 5. Morning fine: 

 about two inches of snow in the evening, followed by hail and rain, which thawed 

 nearly all of it before morning. 6. Cloudy: the thaw continuing. 7. Cloudy. 

 8. Fine: cloudy. 9. Foggy. 10. Foggy: cloudy. 11. Rainy. 12. Rainy: fln€ 

 at intervals. IS. Cloudy: very rainy night. 14. Rainy day: a lunar corona in the 

 evening. 15, 16. Cloudy: fine atinteivals. 17 — 20. Cloudy. 20. Cloudy : a lunar 

 corona in tlie evening surrounded by a large halo. 21. Foggy morning : very fine day. 

 22. Gloomy : fine. 23. Fine. (The observation on the barometer here given is from 

 tlie one which is constantly registered. Two others, probably less perfectly adjusted, 

 wtre found to stand respectively at 30-M5 and 30*95 inches; the clock barometer at 

 Tottenham gives the maximum at about 30 78 inches ; the whole at noon on the 23d.) 

 24. Gloomy: foggy. 25. Ditto. 26. Cloudy. 28. Ditto. 25. Foggy: misty. 

 •89. Fine clear morning : fine day. wiO, 31. Fine. 



RESULTS. 



Windt^ N, I; NE,4; E,9; SB, 3 ; S, 2; SW, 7 ; W,3; NW, 1 ; Var. 1. 

 Barometer : Mean height 



For the month. 29*930 inches. 



For the lunar period, ending the 26th 29-8^7 



For 13 days, ending the 8th (moon south) 29*668 



For 1 4 days,, ending the 22d (moon north) 29-893 



Thermometer: Mean height 



Forthemonth S8-1770 



For the lunar period * ••• 36*383 



For 3D dayi», tlie sun in Capricorn 35*616 



Evaporation 0*60 io. 



Rain 2-89 



Mean of hygrometer. 81^ 



Laboratory, Stratfordy Second Month, 20, 1821. R. HOWARD. 



