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METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 



Remarks. — The variations of temperature during the month of June were 

 great and remarkable. — A sudden increase took place on the morning of the 

 6th, when the thermometer exceeded the maximum of the preceeding day 

 14° ; but the decrease which succeeded at the latter end of the month was 

 still more sensibly felt. On the 25th and 26th of the month the maximum 

 was as much as 30° below that of the 11th, and it is curious to remark that, 

 only a few days after a temperature of 82.5 at midsummer, the thermometer 

 should, at the middle of the day, stand no higher than it did at mid-winter, 

 for on the 7th of December the maximum was 2 ° higher than on the 26th 

 of June. 



On the 4th of August, hardly a cloud to be any where discerned—the air 

 calm and hot— about four or half-past, p. m., a loud clap, apparently of 

 thunder, burst over us, quite near, with a continued rumbling as if the sound 

 reverberated among clouds. We were out of doors at the time and the 

 noise seemed to come from somewhere over-head. It was heard by almost 

 every one in this neighbourhood — and those in doors at the time were sensi- 

 ble of considerable motion — shutters and windows rattling, &c. There have 

 been various reports of slight shocks of earthquake ; we can only state the 

 fact above-mentioned ; it surprised us much at the time, and we are yet 

 unable to account for it. 



There have been no thunder storms at Malvern during the preceding 

 months : heavy storms and distant thunder with occasional lightening — but 

 nothing like a thunder storm. 



Malvern, Sept. 20th, 1835. 



JUNE. 



