during Stormy Weather at Belfast from 1833 to 1843. 449 



Barometer rose between 10£ o'clock at night and 7£ o'clock 

 next morning (nine hours) from 28'95 to 2975 = eight-tenths; 

 it had been falling pretty rapidly for some time before. 



Dec. 5. — Last night a gale of wind with rain from northward 

 of west. Barometer rose about 1 inch in twenty-four hours. 



Dec. 6. — Another gale with heavy rain. Barometer y^// half 

 an inch in twenty-four hours. 



Dec. 12. — A severe gale early this morning. Barometer 

 fell four-tenths in nine hours, and thermometer rose from 40° 

 to 50° in the course of the night. 



Dec. 14. — A gale last night from north-west. Barometer 

 had fallen yesterday morning about three-tenths; between 4 

 and 5 o'clock it began to rise, and had risen eight-tenths at 8 

 o'clock this morning. 



Dec. 15. — Another gale last night with heavy showers. Wind 

 south-west. Barometer fell more than four-tenths in the night. 



Dec. 19. — Thermometer last night at 10| o'clock stood at 

 19°, next morning at 8 o'clock at 28°. 



1842. Jan. 25. — This night, and the morning of the 26th, 

 a remarkably severe gale of wind with tremendous rain, parti- 

 cularly between 5 o'clock and 7 o'clock. The barometer 

 fell nine-tenths of an inch in nine hours, viz. from 1 1 o'clock 

 p.m. to 8 o'clock a.m.; at 11 o'clock it stood at 29*7, and at 8 

 o'clock it was at 28'8, still falling. Wind south, veering to 

 south-west and back. In the evening of the 26th, about 3 

 o'clock, the barometer began to rise, and for some hours rose 

 at the rate of one-tenth per hour, with the wind north-north- 

 west and a severe gale of wind and rain. 



Feb. 27. — About 4 o'clock a.m. a very severe gale of wind 

 with heavy rain. On the preceding day the barometer was 

 rising till 10 o'clock p.m., when I last observed it. At 8 

 o'clock on the following morning it had fallen five-tenths, viz. 

 in ten hours. Heavy squalls" all day on Sunday; worst part 

 of the storm nearly due west, sometimes west-south-west. 



Oct. 22. — A severe gale last night ; barometer fell half an 

 inch in nine hours. 



Dec. 1 5. — Last evening a heavy gale of wind from south-west 

 or west-south-west ; no remarkable fall of the barometer, but 

 the heat unnatural; thermometer being 54°, succeeded by a fall 

 of rain without any wind during the whole of this day and night. 



Dec. 22. — Last night and this morning a gale of wind at 

 south-west ; barometer fell one quarter of an inch ; ther- 

 mometer at 8 o'clock a.m. 50°. 



Dec. 26. — Last night a gale; wind west-south-west to west; 

 fall in barometer about two-tenths, or two and a half; ther- 

 mometer 48° at night, 45° in the morning. 



Phil. Mag. S. 3. Vol. 23. No. 154. Dec. 1843. 2 G 



