METEOROLOGY FOR JANUARY, 1876. 



Owing to unavoidable circumstances, the Hobart 

 Town Meteorological Table for January is incom- 

 plete, no observations having been recorded until 

 the •22ud. The results of the observations from 

 that date until the end of the mouth (10 days) are 

 as follows : — 

 Barometer. —Mean Pressure, 20'021 inches. 

 Max. „ 30-226 ,, 



Min. ,, 29444 ,, 



Wind.— "Mean Force, •341b. per sq. foot. ) Prevailing 

 Max. ,, 2C01b. ,, ,, [ direction, 



Min. ., 0- „ „ ) S.E, 



Thermometer, Fahrenheit. — Mean TemiJ. 0605°, Max. SSO", 

 Min. 55-0°. 

 Ixdatire Humidity, percent. — Mean '74, Max. '94, Min. '52. 

 Highest Temp, in Si»i.— Mean '104-95, Max. °121-0, Min. 

 'Gi-0. 



Ditto in. Shade.— Jilean °7S-85, Max. 93-0, Min. CO-5. 



Tcrrestriallladintion. — Mean "51-45, Max. °C2-0, Min. '41-5. 



Rain in /lic/fcs-.— Total, -08. 



SponlancoH.'i Eraporation. — Total amount, 3-44. 



Cloud. — I\Iean amount, G- (scale — 10). 



Ozone. — Mean amount, 430 (chromatic scale). 



Electricity.— Positive 5, negative 12, nil 3. 



Time of Leafing, Flowering, and Fruiting of a few Standard 

 Plants in the Royal Society's Gardens during the month of 

 January, 1876 : — 

 ISth. — First ripe Apricot gathered. 

 20th. — Veronica Angustifolia in full ilower. 

 24th. — .Jargonelle Pear ripe. 

 25th.— (ire villea Piobusta in flower. 

 31st. — Mulberries commencing to rijien. 



F. ABBOTT, J UN., Superintendent. 



Re.sults of observations taken at New Norfolk 

 for Januarj^ 1876 : — 



Barometer ''corrected and reduced), mean of three daily 

 readirgs, 29S04in. 



Thermometer, mean of three ditto, 64 74°. 



Dew-point, mean position of three ditto, 53-40°. 



Elastic Force of Vapour, mean of three ditto, '402. 



Humidity, mean of three ditto, -06. 



Solar Intensity, mean of max. temp., 130 61°. 



Terrestrial Radiation, mean of min. temp., 45-19 °, 



Rainfall, l-66in. 



Evaporation, 473in. ; in excess of rainfall, 3-07in. 



Clouds, mean of three daily registers, 5'6'2. 



Ozone ditto of two ditto, 5-82. 



AVind, total of three ditto, 79-271b. per sq. foot. 



Horizontal Movement, 2527 miles. 



49 obs. of electricity, 27 negative, 18 positive, 4 nil. 



W. E. SHOOBRIDGE, VaUeyfield. 



