XXVIII. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS TAKEN AT WANSFORD 

 HOUSE, WATFORD, DURING THE YEAR 1882. 



By JoHif HoPKiNsoN, F.L.S., F.M.S., etc., Hon. Sec, 



Read at Watford, 2Qth March, 1883, 



Lo^-GTTUDE of station, 0° 23' 40" W. ; Latitude, 51° 39' 45" K 

 Ground-level at tliermometer- stand and rain-gauge 223 feet, and 

 cistern of barometer 233^ feet, above Ordnance Datum. Barometer, 

 a Fortin. Thermometers, diy-bulb, wet-bulb, Negretti maximum, 

 and Rutherford minimum, 4 feet above the ground in a Stevenson 

 screen, over grass, llaiu-gauge, Snowdon pattern, 5 inches in dia- 

 meter, rim 1 foot above the ground. Wind-vane about 25 feet 

 above the ground, 4 feet above ridge of roof of stable, and 105 feet 

 distant from nearest object of equal height. 



Observations have been taken in 1882 in the same manner as in 

 previous years,* and the accompanying tables (pp. 202, 203) give, 

 as in previous reports, the monthly means of the daily observations, 

 and other results. From these tables (for Dec. 1881 from the re- 

 port for that year) the following summary for the different seasons 

 is deduced, results for Greenwich. Observatory being added for 

 comparison as before. 



"Watford. 



Greethvich. 



Seasons, 

 1881-82. 



Mean 

 Pressure. 



ms. 



Winter 30 '198 



Spring 1 29'948 



Summer ' 29*897 



Autumn , 29798 



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

 also ' Trans. Herts Nat. Hist. Soc.,' Vol. I, p. 121. 



