made at Kendal in Dec^ Jan. and Feb. 1829. 379 



but we have had occasional currents from other points of the compass, 

 though of short duration. 



January. 



Barometer. Inches. 



Maximum on the 7th, - - - 30.06 



Minimum on the 26th, - - - 28.83 



Mean height, - - 29.68 



Thermometer. 

 Maximum on the 1st, - ' - - - 47" 



Minimum on the 20th, . - - - 18.5** 



Mean height, - - - - 32.18° 



Quantity of rain, 0.747 inch. ^ 



M umber of rainy days, 3. 

 Prevalent wind, north. 

 This has been a remarkably fine winter month. No rain fell from the 

 4th to the 28th, and though during that period we had some snow, this 

 was confined chiefly to the 23d, 24th, and 25th. On the 26th was a thaw, 

 and on the 27th, .090 inch of water was taken by the guage, which was 

 the melted snow that had fallen the three preceding days. The barome- 

 ter has been very variable. A corona was observed several times round 

 the moon, but no halo. Neither has Aurora Borealis been observed during 

 the month, (though frequent attention has been paid to the subject,) 

 excepting on the evening of the 2d, when it was very bright. The three 

 days on which rain was taken were the 1st, 4th and 28th. Since the 2d, 

 the nights have mostly been frosty, and sometimes the greater part of the 

 days. There has not been registered in Kendal, for the last seven years 

 so small quantity of rain in January. 



February. 



Barometer. Inches. 



Maximum on the 2d, - - . 30.33 



Minimum on the 2 1st - - - 29.10 



Mean height, ... 29.88 



Thermometer. 

 Maximum on the 13th and 16th, - - 60° 



Minimum on the 3d, . _ . . 23° 



Mean height, - - . . 38.08o 



Quantity of rain, 1.234 inch 

 Number of rainy days, 11. 

 Prevalent wind, west. 

 There has been much less frost in this month than in the last, and yet 

 there has been but little rain, though the weather has been mostly cloudy. 

 In January and February last year there were 32 rainy days, and 10.817 

 inches of rain were taken, but in those months in the present year there 

 have been but 14 rainy days, and 1.981 inch of rain. The barometer has 

 been mostly high, and the mean for the month is greater than that of any 

 month in the last year. Both this and the last month have been colder 

 than the corresponding ones in 1828. The wind has been prevalent in 

 the west for 15 days. 



