
METEOROLOGICAL NOTES DURING THE YEAR 1897. 163 
Meteorological Notes, and Remarks upon the Weather 
during the Year 1897, with its General Effects 
upon Vegetation. 
By James Wuirron, Superintendent of Parks, Glasgow. 
[Read 26th April, 1898.] 
In order to preserve the continuity of the series of notes, the 
figures dealt with are from the records kept at Queen’s Park. 
January.—With a prevalence of S.W. winds, the weather, 
until the 6th, was mild and pleasant for the season. Thereafter 
the winds were chiefly from north and east, and the weather 
became much colder, with unpleasant changes. On the occasions 
when frost was registered, dense fogs were very frequent in the 
city. These conditions continued until the end of the month. 
On the evening of the 29th a snowstorm set in, and continued 
with severity on the 30th. The fall of snow within the twenty- 
four hours was in many places about 6 inches, but it was of a 
soft nature and rapidly melted. 
With the winds so frequently from the north and east, the 
rainfall was low, only 1:22 inches being recorded, of which a 
certain amount would be melted snow. The greatest amount 
recorded on one day was 0°40 on the 4th. There were twenty- 
three dry days. 
During the month the atmospheric pressure, as indicated by 
the barometer, was somewhat irregular, varying between 29:40 
inches on the 6th and 30'14 inches on the 20th. Then there was 
a sharp fall to 29:20 on the 25th, when there was a fall of snow 
to the depth of 1 inch. For three days thereafter there was 4 
steady rise to 29°85 on the 28th, followed by a rapid drop to 
29°10 inches during the prevalence of the snowstorm on the 30th. 
Frost, amounting to 143°, was registered on twenty mornings— 
the lowest reading being on the 18th, when 16° of frost were 
