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Cleveland, Ohio. — Jauiuiiy S. — The barometer istauds thirty-six hundredths 

 of an inch higher to-day than at any time for seven years past. 12th, lightning 

 and thunder about 10 p. m. 19th, thermometer at 9 p. m. 58^ ; 20th, 7 a. m., 

 28- ; 21st, 7 a. m., G° ; rain and snow in the night of the 19th. 



Kelley's Island, Ohio. — January 8. — Barometer attained its maximum at 10 

 a. m., and remained stationary for an hour, being higher than the observer had 

 ever before recorded. At 12 m. the top of the column Avas concave, but not 

 perceptibly lower ; at 1 p.m. it had fallen five hundredths of an inch. 19th, 

 thermometer at 9 p. m. 44°; at the same hour next night 7°. 



Kingston, Ohio. — January 8. — The barometer is higher to-day than the ob- 

 server ever saw it before. 20th, about two o'clock this morning a thunder-storm 

 came up, which was followed by a high northwest wind and a fall of tempera- 

 ture^ At 9 p. ni. of the 19th the thermometer was 62°, and at the same hour 

 next night it hud fallen fifty degrees. 



East Fairfield, Ohio. — January 8. — The barometer was at the highest from 

 10 to 11 a. m. 13th, a thunder gust came up about midnight last night, accom- 

 panied with some hail. 20th, the wind was high from midnight till 4.15 a. in., 

 when it was attended by a sudden gust of heavy rain, apparently from the west, 

 lasting only five minutes. There were a few light showers afterwards till S 

 a. m., when it commenced snowing. 



Urhana, Ohio. — January S. — At 2 p. m. the barometer stood at 30 inches, 

 (reduced to freezing point.) The observer has never seen it higher during the 

 thirty-three years of his observations. The barometric wave Avas over six days 

 in passing. 20th, a violent thunder-storm began at about 1 a. m.; the thunder 

 continued an hour and a half; there was some hail in the early part of the storm, 

 and the rain was followed by snow. At 2 o'clock the thermometer, then stand- 

 ing at 61°, began to fall, and in five hours it fell fifty-one degrees. 



Toledo, Ohio. — January 8. — The highest barometrical reading that Avas ever 

 obserA'cd in this vicinity occurred at 2 p. m. The barometer Avas several days 

 rising and also in foiling. The only other phenomenon attending it Avas the 

 extreme cold. 19th, thin-mometer at 2 p. m., 54° ; at 9 p. ra., 57°. A shower 

 of rain occurred soon after midnight, accompanied with sharp thunder and 

 lightning. Temperature at 7 a. m. on the 20th, 10°. 



Marion, Ohio. — January 12. — Thunder shower at 9 p. m., with frequent 

 and vivid flashes of lightning and heavy thunder ; Avind from the southwest, and 

 the shoAver passing over the village. 20tli, thunder shower at 2 a. m., passing 

 apparently from southAvest to northeast. 



Bethel, Ohio. — January 12. — Lightning in the north at 9 p. ra. 15th, thun- 

 der overhead at 4i p. m., once only ; lightning in the north at 8 p. m. 20th, in 

 the morning, rain, hail, and snow, Avith thunder and lightning. 



Cincinnati, Ohio. — Storm of Friday night, January 19, Avas very severe in 

 this neighborhood; at Lexington, Kentucky, trees Avere torn up, fences pros- 

 trated, and chimneys OA'erthrown. — Newsjxiper. 



Monroe, Michigan. — January 19. — Temperature at 9 p. m., 45°; at 7 a. m. 

 20th, 14°; at 7 a. m. 21st, 4°; no rain mentioned; gale from the northwest on 

 the 20th. 



Oshtemo, Michigan. — January 20. — Shower last night, with sharp lightning 

 and some heavy thunder. It rained and froze and then snowed. 



Homestead, Michigan. — January 20. — Rain last evening from the southwest, 

 which is uncommon here in Avinter ; Avhid strong from northwest before morning. 

 Thermometer at 9 p. m. of the 19th, 33°; next morning at 7 a. m., zero. 



Holland, Michigan. — January 19. — Little drizzly rain early in the morning 

 and afternoon; harder at night, Avith diffused lightning; changed to colder at 11 

 p. m. 20th, rained a little and snow the past night ; snowing all day ; A-ery blust- 

 ering night and day; great fluctuations in temperature in the forenoon — somc- 

 tim2s ten de2;rees in fifteen minutes. 



