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April 6th, 10 p.m. Densely overcast; squalls of wind and rain; 
and thunder pealing in all quarters; at 95 20™ violent gusts of 
Ie ll p.m. Densely overcast ; drizzling rain—thunder and lightning still con- 
April 7th, midnight. Overcast; rain falling in small drops; thunder and lightning 
decreasing. \ 
Aaa la.m. Overcast; no rain; lightning in the S. and S.W. at two seconds 
interval; the thunder has ceased. 
Seach 2a.m. Do. do. do. do. 
peewee 3.a.m. Nimbi; stars faintly seen; lightning in theS. at intervals of 15 min. 
eee 4a.m. Nimbi; zenith clear; lightning in the N.W. horizon. 
vEvARS 5 a.m. Overcast; lightning in the N.E. ; thunder in the N. 
Cts 6 a.m. Nimbi. 
aewet 7 a.m. Nimbi; fleecy clouds moving from the N.E. 
tied 8 a.m. Nimbi; cirrocumuli in the zenith. 
ere « 9 a.m. Cirrostratus and cirrocumuli; many breaks in the zenith. 
quarters. 
REPORT—1848. 
since last observation. 
wind, which lasted 20 minutes. 
tinuing. 
Drizzling rain, in large drops, has continued to fall 
lightning flashing 
Abstract of Meteorological Observations from the Observatory Report, from 9 a.M. 
April 6, to 9 a.m. April 7, 1848. 
Bombay, Magnetic Observatory, 8th April, 1848. 
Days and hours. 
6th Apel, As M. 
Standard 
barometer 
corrected. 
29°847 
29°857 
29°861 
29°827 
29°782 
29°745 
29°701 
29°707 
29°727 
29°764 
29-799 
29-798 
29°830 
29-920 
29°857 
29°789 
29°784 
29°761 
29°766 
29°777 
29:779 
29-799 
29°827 
29°872 
29°876 
g | % 
gs ae Ves Wind. 
Zz FI 23 a4 Rain 
se | Ba | ge a 
aS 
E EA Zs Direc- |Force in| inches. 
6 tion. bs. 
775 | 0:902) 0:98 s. 1:25 | 0-01 
75:0 | 0°826| 0:97 | n.z. | 1:20 | 0-01 
70:0 | 0°734| 1:00 | E.n.z.] 2°10] 0°34 
70:0 | 0°713| 0:98 |n.n.z.| 1:78 | 0-08 
70:0 | 0°704| 0:97 |z.n.z.| 1:52 | 0-08 
75-2 | 0-803, 0-931 s. | 036 
74-0 | 0-747| 0:90 | s.s.z.| 0-05 
Total fallcof rain tienen cces este stenaeeen 0°47 
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Norts.—Remarks on the Thunder and Lightning Storm of the 6th of April 1848. 
At 6 o’clock in the evening the appearance of the sky in the N. and E. was very 
remarkable :—Cumuli, cumulostrati, and scud, were cumulating in the N. and 
across the E, to S.E., rising to an elevation of nearly 60° from the horizon. 
Upon 
