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MISCELLANEOUS PHENOMENA FOR JANUARY. 



AURORA. 



January 11. — Cornisliville, Maine. — Northern lights from 9 to 11 p. m. 



January 12. — Fort Ann, New York. — Aurora at 9 p.m. ; brightness moderate. 



January 24. — New Castle. Indiana. — Faint aurora from 8 to 9 p. m. 



January 25. — New Castle, Indiana. — Faint aurora from 8 to 9 p. m. 



January 26. — North Littleton, New Hampshire. — Aurora in the north quite 

 dim, with clouds in the north at 8 p. m. 



January 30. — Urbana, Ohio. — Aurora; the light was uniform and white; 

 no appearance of corruscations. The centre was about N. 30° W., reaching 

 upwards 35°. It was visible between %^ and 9 J p. m.; heavy clouds then 

 obscured it. 



LIGHTNING. 



January 1. — Saint John, New Brunswick. — Three or four vivid flashes of 

 lightning to the eastward at 5 p. m., followed by as many loud peals of 

 thunder. Snow and rain all day. 



January 15. — Key West, Florida. — Heavy shower about 2 a. m., with 

 heavy thunder; squall from the west. 



January 15. — Mirador, Mexico. — Distant thunder in the night. 



January 19. — Theresa, New York. — Chain lightning in the southwest, 

 with three peals of thunder, at 3.30 p. m. ; wind north, snowing. 



January 19. — Gouverueur, New York. — Thunder and lightning at 4 p. m. ; 

 two sharp flashes of lightning, followed by thunder. The wind had been in 

 the northeast all day up to a short time before 4 p. ra., when it suddenly 

 changed to the southeast. At 4.15 the wind again changed to the north- 

 east, sleet falling at the time. The barometer had fallen rapidly all day, 

 and had reached 28.70 (the lowest during the month") at the time of the 

 thunder and lightning, and immediately after commenced to go up. 



January 27. — Augusta, Illinois. — Shower at 7 a. m., with some thunder. 



January 27. — Iowa Falls, Iowa. — This evening, at about 6 o'clock, four 

 flashes of lightning to the north, and one report of rumbling thunder to the 

 far north. 



January 28. — Augusta, Illinois. — Lightning, with some thunder, in the 

 southwest all the evening, from 7 p. m. to 9. p. m.; at 10 p. m. a sudden dash 

 of rain for a few minutes. 



January 28. — Manchester, Illinois. — Diffuse lightning in the west after 6 

 p. m. ; thunder in the night. 



January 28. — Duquoin, Illinois. — Severe thunder. 



January 28. — Waverly, Illinois.-^Difi'use lightning in the west from sunset 

 until 10 p. m. 



January 28. — Harrisonville, Missouri. — Very distant thunder in the south- 

 west at 4^ p. m., and continued, at intervals of from five to fifteen minutes, 

 till about 6^ p. m., when it became nearer, with diffuse lightning, and com- 

 menced raining; gentle showers till 8^ p. m.; lightning and thunder passing 

 over this place towards the northeast. Distant diffuse lightning still con- 

 tinues in the northeast at 9 p. m. , 



January 28. — St. Louis, Missouri. — Lightning at a distance, towards W. 

 NW., from 7 to 8 p. m. 



January 28. — Lawrence, Kansas. — A violent thunder-storm. 



January 28. — Fort Riley, Kansas. — Diffuse lightning in the southwest 

 from 7 to 11 p. m. 



January 28. — Olatha, Kansas. — Thunder, lightning, and rain in the night. 



January 28. — Muscatine, Iowa. — Thunder and lightning at 9 p. m. 



