3T8 Mr MarshalPs Meteorological Observations 



JUNE. 



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. XXIX. — Summary of Meteorological Observations made at Kendal 

 in December 1829, and January and February 1830. By Mr Samuel 

 Marshall. Communicated by the Author. 



State of the Barometer, Thermometer , &^c. in Kendal for December 1829. 



Barometer. Inches. 



Maximum on the 31st, - . . 30.40 



Minimum on the 4th, - - - 29.55 



Mean height, - - - - 29.93 



Thermometer. 

 Maximum on the 7 th, - - . 51' 



Minimum on the 28th, - - 20* 



Mean height, - - - 35.16'' 



Quantity of rain, 2.899 inches 

 Number of rainy days, 6. 

 Prevalent winds, north east. 



This has been a very cold and dry month and, had it not been for the 

 rain which fell on the 11th, 12th, and 13th, on which three days 2.505 

 inches were measured, we should have had but .249 inch for the month. 

 There have been but six rainy days. Though there have been several 

 days on which snow has fallen, yet when melted the quantity has been 

 scarcely sufficient to be measured by the gauge, amounting altogether only 

 to .145 incli. The barometer has been high through the whole of the 

 month, and the mean is greater than has been the case in any month for 

 several years. The mean of the thermometer clearly indicates the seve- 

 rity with which the winter has commenced. The cold dry winds from 

 the N. E., N. and E. have prevailed during the greater part of seventeen 

 days. The temperature of the days and nights has frequently been near- 

 ly equal, sometimes not varying more than 3° or 4°. 



Janvxiry, 1830. 



Barometer. Inches. 



Maximum on the 1st, - . - 30.47 



Minimum on the 21st, - - • 28.99 



Mean height, . . , . 29.80 



