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THE METEOROLOGY OF ENGLAND 



DtTRIXG 



THE QUARTER ENDING JUNE SOxir, 1857. 



By JAMES G L A I S H E E, Esq., F.E.S., 



SEC. OF THE BRITISH METEOEOLOGICAL SOCIETX. 



April, till the 10th day, and from the 17th to the 21st, Avas hot, 

 the day temperatures within these periods being 5^° in excess ; 

 from the 11th to the 16th, and from the 24th it Avas cold, snow fall- 

 ing on every day, and the daily defect of temperature was 0° ; the 

 temperature for the month was about 1° below that of the average 

 of the preceding 16 years. May was cold till the 10th, the average 

 daily defect of temperature was 6°; from the 11th it was warm, 

 rising in the middle of the month to summer temperature, the 

 maximum in the shade in many places exceeding 80° ; there was a 

 deficiency of rain ; the temperature for the month was somewhat in 

 excess. June was warm till the 8th ; it was cold from the 9th to 

 the 18th, and hot from the 19th ; on the 28th the temperature 

 near the sea rose to 75° ; at j)laces between the latitudes of 61° 

 and 52° it exceeding 91° and in some places 92° ; in London it was 

 88° ; and at all other places it was somewhat below 90°. This 

 day was the hottest we have experienced since 1846, July 6th ; and 

 it was also remarkable for the small amount of water in the air in 

 the invisible shape of vapour, the temperature of the dew-point 

 being fully 35° below that of the air, at times, during the day. The 

 temperature for the month was 3° in excess above the average. In 

 April the temperature by day was about 1J° below that of the 

 average ; in May was about 3° above, and in June was about 5i*^ 

 above their respective average temperatures; during the whole 

 quarter the temperature by night has been that of the average. 

 The excess of temperature upon the quarter has therefore been 

 wholly attributable to higher day temperature than usual from May 

 llth to June 8th, and from June 19th ; and so also the greater daily 

 ranges of temperature are owing to the same cause. 



