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1 20—2 5. 
2 20—3 5 
3 20—4 56 
4 20—5 5 
5 20—6 5 
7 20—8 5 
8 20—9 5, 
9 20—10 5. 
10 20—11 5. 
11 20—12 5, 
12 20—13 6. 
14 20—15 5. 
15 20—16 5. 
16 20—17 5. 
REMARKS ON THE WEATHER. 1842. 
AUGUST. 
208, Sky covered with cirri: a few cumuli to N. 23", Haze and cumuli, 2. Sky hazy: 
clouds misty: cumuli, 5". Cirri: sky very hazy, especially on horizon: a few specks of cumuli to 
SE. and NE. 
20%, Largest kind of cirro-cumuli. 23", Cumuli and cirro-cumuli: hazy to E. 2, Heavy 
black and white cumuli: scud below: a few drops of rain; very hazy to E.: a few cirri: electric 
and rainy-looking. 5%. Cumuli and scud : haze on horizon: patches of hazy sky. 
20"—23", Scud moving rapidly. 2". Cumuli and send: sky in zenith, 55, Cumuli and 
scud : cirri above. 
20, Scud. 23, Seud: occasional patches of sky and gleams of sunshine: very light drizzle, 
2h, Scud: slightdrizzle. 5%. Asat 2; the upper covering of clouds is a dim homogeneous gray : 
occasional patches of sky. 
204, Fine linear cirri radiating from SSW. and NNE.: mottled cirri to E. 23%, Reticulated 
cirrus, which becomes cirrous haze to E.: loose cumuli and cumulo-strati below. 2. Detached 
cumuli round horizon : cirrous haze above. 5". Detached masses of cumuli: cirri and cirrous haze 
above; the cirri waved in all directions. 
20%, Hazy: scud: clouds like cedar branches: very thick to E. 23%. Loose cumuli or scud. 
Qh__5h, Heavy cumuli: very hazy to E. 
20%, Scud: cumuli on E. horizon: hazy to E. 23". Loose cumuli moving quickly: woolly 
cirro-cumuli: linear cirri and cirrous haze. 2. As before; showers. 5°. Linear and woolly 
cirri and cirrous haze over 63 tenths: scattered cumuli. 
20", Hazy cirrous clouds : linear cirri : cirro-cumuli-strati and woolly cirro-cumuli, 235. Clouds 
scattered : as before, but a few small patches more nearly approaching to small cumuli, 2, Very 
hazy and electric-looking: haze and cumuli; the cumuli not much rounded and rather flat. 
5", Nimbi: thunder, first heard about 25 30™ to the SSW., whence black cumuli arose ; it gra- 
dually came nearer, moving along W. horizon: rain began to fall at 3" 0™, which has continued 
since ; the storm has now worked round to NE. or E.; the flashes of lightning are not frequently 
seen ; the storm appeared about 7" to have ceased ; it was, however, only a lull for an hour, when 
it again commenced more violently than ever, the lightning being often vivid ; the distance of the 
thunder-clouds being from 4 of a mile to 5 miles. The magnets have been nearly stationary since 
the storm began; this fixedness of their positions during thunder-storms has been observed three 
times now. 
204, Scud. 28", Hazy clouds and loose cumuli, principally on horizon. 2. Loose cumuli 
moving quickly : linear cirri and loose cirro-cumuli above stationary. 5". Cumuli moving quickly : 
a few patches of matted cirri above, apparently stationary. 
Scud. 20". Clouds moving quickly: to the E. there is a large bank of bluish-gray clouds 
stationary. 2". Sky on NE. horizon. 
20, Misty seud, very low and moving very quickly: a great quantity of matted and woolly 
cirrous clouds above; the scud is so thin that the cirrous clouds can be often seen through it. 
23", Nearly as before, but the sky is more in detached patches. 25. Loose cumuli moving quickly : 
above are fine mottled, vertebrated, etched, reticulated, and hazy cirri. 5%. Loose cumuli, as 
before, but more hazy : cirrous clouds and cumuli stationary : great banks of dense cirro-strati. 
204, Thin seud: pectinated cirri above ; the fibres of the cirri pointing NNW. and E.; the cirri — 
appear to have a sort of leeway to E. or SE.: a few cirro-cumuli, 23", Hazy and flame cirri, some 
pointing NW., and some pointing SW.: hazy cirri to NW., from which spring the greater portion 
of the flame cirri: a few cumuli on horizon, and scud rising from SW. 2", Cumuli: cirri above, 
lying in two directions ; the flame cirri rising from WNW., and linear cirri pointing NNE. and 
NW.; the cirri are gathered together in some places into little foamy patches: very electric-look- — 
ing to 8.: frequently the quantity of clouds is only seven-tenths. 5%. Cumuli and cirro-strati to 
W : thick cirrous haze and patches of scud to 8. and SE.: cirri of various kinds to the E.: cirro- 
strati and piles of white cumuli beyond: haze and cirri lying in different directions: cirri lying 
chiefly from NE. to SW. and SE, to NW.: scud. 
20", Loose cumuli: a kind of cirro-cumuli above stationary, 23%. Loose cumuli: sky on 
NE. horizon. 2", Loose cumuli, much detached and moving very slowly: sky all in little patches. 
5", Scud: patches of sky on NE. horizon. 
204.23, Homogeneous: a tendency to break at 23, 2. A few patches of scud moving 
rather quickly : linear cirri above. 5%, Cumuli: large cirro-cumuli and linear cirri. 
