Proceedings. é 19 
Meteorology, Oxford Road, Redhill, 1893. 
BaRoMErTer. 
The observations are made at 8 A.M. 
The maximum of the year was 30°70 inches on 30th Decem- 
ber. The minimum was 28-85 inches on the 21st February, 
but the lowest actually noticed was 28°73 inches at 6 P.M. on 
20th December. This last is the lowest reading I have recorded 
in 27 years. 
On 228 days the pressure was over 30 inches; on 137 days 
it fell below 30 inches. The pressure was in excess for a con- 
siderable portion of the year, chiefly in the spring months. 
The extreme range was 1°97 inches. The average pressure 
30°04 inches. 
THERMOMETER. 
The temperature reached 80° and upwards in the shade on 
22 days, and 70° and upwards but less than 80° on 64 days. 
_ The summer was therefore decidedly warm. 
The minimum temperature was 8° on the 3rd January. It 
fell below freezing-point at some part of the twenty-four 
hours on 71 days. For seven days in January the temperature 
did not rise above the freezing-point at any time of the day. 
Rar. 
The total fall in the year was 23°76 inches on 145 days. 
The only years embraced in my record in which less rain had 
fallen are: 
1870, when 23-73 inches fell on 130 days. 
1384, Fie eos). » 168 days. 
In the month of April the quantity of rain measured was 
- only -04 of an inch, and that fell on the 16th. This amount, 
with the exception of February 1891, when no fall at all was 
recorded in that month, was the least fall I have recorded in 
any one month during 27 years. 
The longest period of drought was from 17th March to 14th 
May, 59 days ; in which period only the small quantity of rain 
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