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REMARKS ON THE WEATHER. 1842. 
NOVEMBER. 
before: a little more scud, and the haze so thick or white as to render it difficult to distinguish it 
from milky sky. : 
204. The ground covered by a slight fall of snow: still falling lightly. 23%—2h, Scud low : 
cirrous haze above: still a few flakes of snow: a break in the clouds to S. 5". Clouds a homoge- 
neous mass: no scud visible: still a few flakes of snow, which are now increasing. 
204, Scud : cirrous clouds above: sky to S. 23". Cirro-strati on E. and S. horizon: frizzled 
cirri above to N. and E.: clouds resting on Cheviots; the hills look distant. 2. Cirrous-edged 
cumulo-strati, reaching from W. to SE., and moving along 8. horizon : cirrous clouds above : clouds 
and snow on Cheviots. 5". Scud: cirro-strati to NE. 
20%—2h. Scud: cirrous haze: light rain. 5. Scud. 
Send. 20%. Clouds opening: cirrous clouds above. 234. Cirro-strati and cumulo-strati on 
S. and E. horizon: sky to S. and E. 2. Haze: sky to N. 
10—26 10. 10%—194, Scud: slight shower at 14%, 20%. Scud: hazy above: fiery red to K.: patches of 
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sky: rain lately. 21". Scud: cirrous clouds above : cumuli on E. horizon : hazy patches of sky : 
red to E. 22535, Seud, and haze above. 4". Cirro-cumulous scud moving very slowly : sky 
to S. 5%—64, Scud: dense: most open to SE. 7%—8. "Scud: rain at 8". 9'—10". Very 
dark ; at 10" clouds lying in strata from S. 
204, Send: light rain. 23". Send: cirrous clouds above: patches of sky to E.: light rain. 
2h As before; no sky. 5%. Send: light rain. 
204, Seud and loose cumulo-strati. 23". As before; sky principally to E. 2. Heavy cumuli 
and scud: cirrous clouds above: rain falling around. 5%, Scud moving quickly: sky hazy. 
Cumulo-strati, scud, and nimbi. 
DECEMBER. 
Seud. 
204. Scud: clouds breaking. 234, Beautifully mottled cirri, radiating from SW. and NE. ; 
in some places like the finest cirro-cumuli, but chiefly like woolly net-work : scud below. 2. Scud : 
patch of sky on NE. horizon. 5". Scud: slightly cirro-cumulous: patches of sky. 
204, Foggy: rain lately: the vane points from NE. 23%—2h. Thick mist since 20°; cleared 
off now: nota breath of wind. 5". Flocculent cirro-cumuli and scud ; motion scarcely perceptible : 
mists rising from the ground. 
20, Homogeneous. 23". Scud: clouds breaking: small patches of sky. 2". Scud and loose 
cumulo-strati: linear cirri and cirrous haze above. 5%, Cirro-stratus scud: cirro-cumulous clouds 
above: clouds red to SW. 
20, Loose cumulo-strati or scud: cirrous clouds over the sky: red to E. 23*—5, Cirro- 
cumulous seud. 
205. Homogeneous: gray. 235. Scotch mist. 2". Mist still: scud: clouds breaking: a patch 
of sky: fine cirri seen above. 5". Asat 2",; no sky. 
204, Thick mist. 23". Thick mist: scud: patches of sky: cirrous clouds seen above: in a 
few minutes the quantity of clouds 8. 2. Mist and light rain. 5%, Cirro-cumulous scud: an 
hour ago the quantity of clouds was 8. 
20, Dark: light rain: sky to SSE. 23". Scud, with lightest rain: patches of hazy sky to 
SSE., with very gray clouds. 2"—5*. Seud: light rain. 
Scud, 20". Light rain, 2. Rain heavier. 5°. Light rain. 
20%, Scud: patches of sky covered with cirrous clouds to SE. 23". A sort of cirrous seud, 
rather cirro-cumulous in its disposition. 2. Sky covered with masses of cirrous clouds, some of 
them very low; large white mass to N., moving very slowly: the sky greenish-blue to SE. 5”. 
Thick cirrous clouds, lighter here and there. ‘ 
20%, A few drops of rain: a patch of bright red to SE. 23". Send: light rain. 2". Scud. 
5», A great reservoir of curled seud, boiling up in the SW., and moving quickly across the sky: a 
few cirrous clouds higher, moving very slowly : sky hazy. 
204, Cirrous clouds : it is difficult to tell what is sky and what is not, on account of the cirrous 
haze: cumulo-strati and cirro-strati on horizon. 28". Scud: misty drizzle. 2". Scud: cirrous 
clouds above: cumuli to E. 5", Scud: a few patches of sky to E. and S.: occasionally drops of 
rain as there have been all day. 
