XXII. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIOXS TAKEN AT THE GRANGE, 

 ST. ALBANS, DURING THE YEAR 1896. 



By JoHjf HoPKrNsoif, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R. Met. Soc, Assoc. Inst. C.E. 



Read at St. Albans, 6th April, 1897. 



LoNGrruDE of Station, 0° 20' 7" W. ; latitude, 51° 45' 9" N". 

 Cistern of barometer 388 feet, ground-level at thermometer-screen 

 380 feet, and at rain-gauge 379 feet, above Ordnance Datum. 

 Thermometers (in Stevenson screen) 4 feet, and top of rain-gauge 

 1 foot, above the ground. Observations taken at 9 a.m. 



The accompanying tables (pp. 176, 177) give the monthly means, 

 etc., of the daily observations in 1896, and the following is the 

 usual summary for the seasons : — 



Means foe the Seasons from Dec. 1895 to Nov. 1896. 



In the next table the chief results, monthly and annual, are 

 compared with the means for the ten years 1877-86 at Watford. 



DiFFEEENCE IN 1896 FEOM MeANS OF 1877-86 AT "WaTFOED. 



