190 Mr Marshall's Meteorological Observations 



The preceding numbers will enable any person to find the positions of 

 the planets, to lay them down upon a celestial globe, and to determine their 

 times of rising and setting. 



Art. XXXI. — Summary of Meteorological Observations made at Kendal 

 in Marchf April, and May 1829. By Mr Samuel Marshall. 

 Communicated by the Author. 



State of the Barometer, Thermometer, 8^c. in Kendal for March 1829. 



Barometer. Inches. 



Maximum on the 3d, - - - 30.23 



Minimum on the 20th - - - - 29.13 



Mean height, - - - - 29-72 



Thermometer. 



Maximum on the 20th, - - - 62.5* 



Minimum on the 16th, ... 19.6"* 



Mean height, ... - 38.34* 



Quantity of rain, 0.867 inches. 

 Number of rainy days, 4. 

 Prevalent wind, north-east. 



This has proved another remarkably dry month. Indeed the contrast 

 of the three months now past in this year, and the first three months of 

 last year, will be striking when it is stated, that so far in the present year 

 we have had but 2.848 inches of rain, and 18 rainy days. In January, 

 February, and March last year, we had 13.257 inches of rain, and 50 

 rainy days. The mean temperature of these three months in the present 

 year is much less than in the last, being in 1828, 40.06°, but in 1829 only 

 36.20°. In consequence, vegetation generally is several weeks behind 

 what it was at the end of March last year. Though the evenings have 

 been generally clear during the month, the Aurora Borealis has not been 

 noticed. We had violent gusts of wind on the evening of the 20th, a 

 specimen of the equinoctial gales. The weather on the whole has been 

 very pleasant, though we have had a long continuance of dry winds, which 

 usually proceed from the E. and N. E. from which quarters the wind has 

 mostly blown in the day time the greater part of the month. 



April. 



Barometer. Inches. 



Maximum on the 26th, - - - 30.04 



Minimum on the 15th, ... 28.58 



Mean height, - - - - 29.34 



