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Osborne says, twelve large trees were overturned; the observer 

 at Southbonrne says, houses were unroofed. At all places the 

 leaves of trees on the S.W. or windward side was spoken of as 

 blackened, as if by frost, or as if scorched by fire ; this effect was 

 attributed by several observers to saline matter carried by the 

 wind. The gale entirely changed the appearance of the country 

 over which it passed, but it did not extend far north. At Cam- 

 bridge there was a gale after 3 p.m. ; at Oxford a storm fr.om 5 

 p.m. to 9 p.m. ; at Lowestoft a gale after 4 p.m. ; at Hull the 

 day was fine with showers; at Bradford the day was fine through- 

 out; at Stonyhurst there was a snow storm, and snow fell at 

 Liverpool and Bolton. The instances of rain exceeding an inch 

 in one day, were on the 1st at Plymouth, on the 12th at Totnes, 

 on the loth at Stonyhurst, on the 25th at Caterham and London, 

 on the 2nth at Wrottesley, Bolton, Bradford, and on the 30th 

 at Halifax. 



The mean temperature of the air for April was IT^'O, being 

 1°*8 above the average of 111 years, and 0°*8 above the average 

 of the preceding 42 years, and of nearly the same value as on 

 the two or three preceding Aprils. 



The mean temperature of the quarter ending with December, 

 1881, was 44''-6, being V"2 above the average of 110 years, and 

 0"'! above the average of 40 years. 



The mean temperature for the quarter ending March 31st, 

 was 42°-7, being 4' and 2''9 above the average of 111 years, and 

 41 years respectively. 



Back to 1771 there have been six instances of the mean 

 temperature of the quarter ending March exceeding 42", viz : — 

 1779 it was 42°-4 1834 it was 42^-9 1863 it was 42"-6 

 1822 it was 44°-5 1846 it was 43^-6 1S72 it was 43°.6 

 of these four of higher temperature than in this quarter, viz., in 

 1822, 1831, 1846, and in 1872. 



Mean High Day and Low Night Tempkrature. 



The mean high day temperature of the air in October was 

 52''-4, being 5°-S below the average of 40 years; in November it 

 was 54°-0, being 5'-3 higher than the average, and in December 

 was 43''9, being 0'-8 below the average. 



The mean low night temperature oi' the air in October was 

 39'-0, being 4'-5 below the average of 40 years; in November it 



