XXXII. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS TAKEN AT WANSFORD 

 HOUSE, WATFORD, DURING THE YEAR 1880. 



Et John Hopkit^sox, F.L.S., F.M.S., etc., Hon. Sec. 



Bead at Watford, I9th April, 1881. 



LoxGirrBE of t-tation, 0° 23' 40" W. ; Latitude, 51° 39' 45" IS". 

 Grouud-level at thermometer-stand and rain-gauge 223 feet, and 

 cistern of barometer 233^ feet, above Ordnance Datum. 



Observations having been taken in 1880 in the same manner as in 

 previous years, it will bo unnecessary to repeat here the particulars 

 given in previous reports.* The accompanying tables (pp. 252, 

 253) give the monthly means of the daily observations and of other 

 results deduced from them ; and from these tables, and for Decem- 

 ber, 1879, tliose in the previous i-eport, the following summary of 

 the principal results for the different seasons is deduced. 



"Watford. 



For comparison the results of observations at the Greenwich 

 Observatory are computed as in former reports. 



GEEEmnCH. 



Seasons, 

 1879-80. 



Mean 



Pressure. 



Winter 

 Spring 

 Summer 

 Autumn 



ms. 



30-173 

 30-025 

 29-931 

 29943 



The weather of the year 1880, as experienced at "Watford, was 

 of a very similar character to that of 1878. The mean temperature 

 of the two years was practically the same, the difference being only 

 one-tenth of a degree, and neither the mean minimum, mean 

 maximum, nor mean daily range differed by more than half a degree. 



See ' Trans. Watford Nat. Hist. See.,' Vol. I, p. 217, and Vol. II, p. 209. 



