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previous January was very great, the mean being more than 10° 

 liigher in 1882 than in 1881, and tlie mean max. of 1882 being 

 being only 0°3 lower than the mean min. of 1881. 



1SS2 9 a.m. 39°-2 Mean Min. 34"- 8 Mean Max. 44°-3 Mean 39''-4 



ISSl „ 28 -4 ,, 24 -1 „ 35 1 ,, 29 -2 



Difference ,, 10 -8 „ 10 •? ,, 9 -2 ,, 10 -2 



There were no great variations in temperature during the month. 

 Max. above 42° on 21 days (an unusually large number for 

 January) ; min. below 32° on 8 (a very small number). From 

 12th to 26th inclusive (15 days) no rain fell, and during the whole 

 of this period the pressure of the atmosphere was very high ; it 

 "was also marked by much fog, a sky almost completely overcast, 

 and little or no wind. The following are the barometer-readings * 

 at 9 a.m. : — 



ins. ins. ins. 



12tli 30-414 I7tli 30-948 22nd 30-649 



13th -44.5 18tli -980 23rd -577 



^ 14th -065 19th -929 24th -718 



loth -716 20th -776 25th -749 



Ibth -857 21st -745 26th -600 



The barometric pressure on the 18th, as already mentioned, is the 

 greatest which has ever been recorded in England, and the mean 

 for the entire month is exceptionally high. 



February. — Very similar in character to January, having, like 

 it, a calm and humid atmosphere, much cloud and fog, but little 

 rain, and no snow, but as the mean temperature was scarcely any 

 higher than in that month, the weather in February was more 

 seasonable and though mild not exceptionally so. Pressure was 

 again high, especially on the first few days, and from 19th to 22nd. 

 On 26th and 27th it was very low. 



ins. ins. ins. 



19th 30-602 21st 30-623 26th 29-071 



20th -848 22ud -668 27th -126 



The weather was much colder at the commencement of the month, 

 to the 9th, than towards the end, there being a very decided change 

 on the 10th, when a calm and rather cold atmosphere with scarcely 

 any rain (0-02in. on 5th only) gave place to warm and rather stormy 

 weather with frequent rain. There was a very dense fog on 4th. 



March. — Very warm, bright, and windy, with an atmosphere of 

 average pressure and humidity, and with little rain and only a few 

 days of snow ; the first month since the previous March in which 

 snow fell on more than one day, and the first month in which any 

 snow fell since December, the interval without snow being from 

 10th Dec. to 21st March. Temperature tolerably uniform ; below 

 32° at 9 a.m. on 4th and 14th only. Max. above 52° on 21 days, 

 above 62° on 4 ; min. below 32° on 10. There was heavy rain 

 and a gale of wind on the night of the 1st, followed by hail on the 



* In all cases the readings are corrected to 32° and reduced to sea-level. 



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