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REMARKS ON THE WEATHER. 1842. 129 
OCTOBER. 
Med h dah 
12 20—13 5. 20%. Linear cirri to NE. : a thick bank to E.: mist rising from the ground: the ground covered 
9g with hoar-frost. 23", Various kinds of cirrus. 2. Very fine linear cirri and other varieties. 
z 55. Cirri of almost every kind, but chiefly linear ; very thick to N. 
13 20—14 5. 20". Scud, dropping the slightest possible rain: sky on NE. horizon, 23%. Scud or loose 
cumuli: linear cirri above. 2. Loose-edged cumuli and cumulo-strati: woolly and linear cirri 
above. 5%. Cirro-cumulous scud, becoming cirro-strati to E.: cirrous haze and linear cirri cover 
about three-tenths of the sky : large loose-edged cumuli rising in W. 
14 20—15 5. 20%. Cirro-cumulous scud assuming the form of cirro-strati to S. and E. 23". Detached patches 
of loose cumuli, the greater part on S. horizon. 2. Two currents of loose-edged cumuli and cumulo- 
strati. 55. Loose cumuli to S., like large cirro-cumuli, which near the zenith become small. 
16 20—17 5. 20—23. Nearly homogeneous. 2", A little more broken: scud: cumuli to N. 5®. A loose 
sort of cirro-cumuli highest, and in N. half of the sky: im the S. is a great mass of scud: rain 
to SE. 
20>. From NNE. round by 8S. to SSW. is a mass of thick woolly feathery cirrus, radiating from 
SSE., reaching to NE., where there are cirro-strati; the feathers appear to move round their centres ; 
on the horizon are watery-looking cumuli, then the thick cirrus, which becomes graqdually thinner to 
near the zenith. 235. Detached loose cumuli: cirrous haze to SE. and NNW.; the linear cirri 
still radiating from SSE. 2". Loose detached cumuli: cirrous haze on SSE. and N. horizon: 
wind varying. 5%. Rain for half-an-hour: very dark, especially to W.: a sort of hazy cloud: 
j wind in gusts, sometimes to 3 or 4. 
18 20—19 5. 20". Clouds clearing off rapidly ; a few minutes ago the quantity was eighth-tenths: thin scud : 
a kind of cirro-cumuli higher: cumuli to N. 23'—2". Loose detached cumuli. 5%. Loose 
cumuli round horizon. 
19 10—20 10. 10. Linear and woolly cirri: cumuli on horizon. 112—12*. Cumulion horizon. 134—14?. 
Clear. 15%—16%. Lunar corona having the-colours of the spectrum ; outer radius about 5°: a 
few cumuli on NE. horizon. 17%. As before, but no clouds. 18. A few clouds on E. horizon: 
slight corona: very clear. 19". Clear. 20*—21». Heavy cumuli on E. horizon. 22". Beautiful 
cumuli on E. horizon : cirro-cumuli in zenith. 23. Loose cumuli and cirro-cumuli: beautifully 
pinnacled cumuli on E. horizon, which have been stationary since the earliest twilight. 0°. Cumuli 
scattered in small portions all round the horizon. 1°. Cumuli and cumulo-strati round horizon. 
2h__6h, Cumuli and cumulo-strati, principally on horizon. 7"—10®. Cumuli on E. horizon. 
20 20—21 5. 20%—23", Cumulo-stratus on E. horizon, as there was all the previous day: linear cirri. 2”. 
Cumuli on horizon: loose cumuli. 5°. Loose cumuli or scud: woolly cirri above: cumuli on FE. 
horizon. 
21 20—22 5. 20%. Rather heavy rain. 23". Loose cirro-cumuli and a few patches of scud. 2. Woolly cirri, 
becoming a kind of cirro-cumuli ; linear cirri and cirrous haze in some places: loose cumuli. 5. 
Scud, very low and moving quickly: hazy clouds: sky stormy-like: a cloud like black cirrus is 
spread over much of the sky, it moves very little. 
23 20—24 5. 20 Scud: haze above? 23%. Loose cumuli and asort of cirrous cloud becoming cirro-cumuli 
on the edges, all to E. 2. Loose cumuli lying round the horizon. 5%. Cumuli on horizon, a few 
r linear cirri to W. 
24 20—25 5. 20%. Cumuli on N. and E. horizon: linear cirri to 8. 23. Strange appearance, as if the 
clouds reached the ground, like a ragged curtain spotted unequally with black: patch of green sky 
to E.: snow to S.? 2". Nearly as at 235, but the tint more uniformly gray: snow on Cheviot : 
snowing at 3", 5". As before, but patches of detached scud seen in the grayish haze: a few drops 
of rain: snowing at 4%, 
25 20—26 5. 20%. A sort of loose cumuli arranged like cirro-cumuli: cumuli on horizon; ground covered with 
a thin coat of snow. 23%. Snow. 2%. Sleet till within a few minutes; scud: cirrous haze seen 
. above: wind varying. 5. Scud; some of it very low: the sky covered with a thin cloud. 
26 20—27 5. 20%. Loose cirro-cumuli from N.: scud very low from about W., some from N., but all moving 
very slowly : mixed cirri seen very low, with a dark cloud above the scud: cumulo-strati to S., 
-cirro-cumulous on the edges. 23. Highest clouds woolly cirri, linear in some places: loose scud : 
sky stormy-like. 2". Cumulousscud to 8. and N.: a kind of cirrous cloud above: like rain to E., 
occasional drops here : a few patches of sky. 5. Scud: cirrous clouds above: light rain: wind 
varying from SSW. to NNW. 
27 20—28 5. 20%. Scud, like small cumuli: a kind of cirrous cloud below a great mass of scud: watery cumuli 
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