'64 J. HOPKINSON METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



sometimes with a rather reddish tinge. A gale of wind blew, and 

 uprooted several trees in the neighbourhood. 



November. — Rather cold, with an average daily range of 

 temperature, a rather humid atmosphere of considerable pressure, 

 a cloudy sky, and an average rainfall on about the usual number 

 of days. Coldest day 23rd, mean 32°-3 ; warmest day 4th, mean 

 69°-9' Min. below 42° on 26 days, below 32° on 13; max. above 

 52° on 5 (3rd, 4th, 16th, 17th, and 28th). The temperature was 

 very variable. Rain or snow fell eveiy day from 13th to 19th, the 

 total for these seven days being over an inch and a half, or more 

 than half the total for the month. Snow fell on 1st, 18th, 19th, 

 and 30th. Barometric pressure was very low on 17th (3 p.m. 

 29-022 ins.), on the same day there was a gale, on 18th a veiy 

 heavy snowstorm, on 1 9th a severe gale with snow, and snow also 

 fell on 30th. 



December. — ^Warm, with a considerable daily range of tempera- 

 ture, an atmosphere of average humidity and pressiu'e, a rather 

 bright sky, and about an average rainfall on the usual number of 

 days. Coldest day 2nd, mean 27°-2 ; warmest day 13th, mean 

 48°-3. Min. below 32 on 10 days, below 22° on 3 (2nd, 3rd, and 

 31st); max. above 42° on 23 days, above 52° on 1 day (13th). 

 The first three and the last two days only were cold. Rain fell 

 every day from 6th to 13th, the total for these eight days being 

 1'40 in., and every day but one from 19th to 25th, the total for 

 these seven days being 0*89 in., thus leaving only 0"10 in. for the 

 rest of the month. Snow fell on 1st, and there was a gale of wind 

 on 20th, on which day barometric pressure was verj- low, being 

 28-985 ins. at 9 a.m. On 30th, when a veiy cold period com- 

 menced, it was the highest in the year, 30-750 ins. 



