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and brilliant sunshine afterwards, gave 
us a prospect of an abundant harvest. 
The hay crop was very productive,’ and 
nearly secured at the end of the month, 
August. —The_first_three weeks of 
this month were in general showery; on 
the 18th, thunder was heard ata dis- 
tance, accompanied with heavy rain; 
the last ten days of the month were 
fair and extremely fine for the harvest, 
which commenced here about the mid- 
dle of the month. 
_ September.—The former part of this 
month was exceedingly sultry, with 
heayy showers; on the 2d, the thermo- 
meter, at noon, was 75°, and the aver- 
age 68°; in the night we had much thun- 
der and lightning, In the latter part 
of.the month we had some very fine 
weather, which, in this county, nearly 
finished'‘a very abundant harvest. On 
the mornings of the 27th and 28th we 
were visited with “severe frost, when 
the thermometer was 3° below freezing, 
and snow. was seen on the mountains. 
‘| October.—During this month we ex- 
perienced violent changes of tempera- 
ture. The first nine days were humid 
and most oppressively sultry; on the 
10th, it became extremely cold, with 
showers of hail, and frost in the nights. 
On the morning of the 16th the ther- 
mometer was as low as 26°, and on the 
morning of the 18th we had a heavy 
fall of snow, which amounted to five or 
six inches in depth, when all the sur- 
rounding mountains were perfectly 
white. On the 19th the temperature 
changed again to unseasonable mild- 
ness, which, excepting some trifling 
variations, continued to the end of the 
month; during this latter period we 
had some very heavy falls of rain. 
November. — This month was ex- 
tremely wet and stormy; the winds, 
which were generally westerly, fre- 
quently blew most violent hurricanes. 
The sudden changes of temperature, 
and also the rapid falling and rising of 
the mercury in the barometer, were 
very remarkable; the changes of tem- 
perature, at times, amounted to up- 
wards of thirty degrees in twenty-four 
hours, and the falling or rising of the 
mercury in the barometer upwards of 
one-tenth of an inch in an hour. We 
had only five fair days; some showers 
of snow, hail; and sleet occurred, with 
frosty nights, and snow was often ob- 
served on the tops of the surrounding 
mountains. 
December commenced with a heavy 
fall of \snow about seven ‘inches’ in 
odepth ; it was succeeded’ by a ‘few days 
Carlisle and Manchester Meteorological Tables. 
of intense frost; on the morning of the 
5th the thermometer was 15°; on the 
following morning it was 409, Avie ave 
had, a heayy fall of mild rain, which 
soon dissolved the snow, and cansed 
the rivers here to overflow their banks | 
to a considerable extent. The weather: 
afterwards, excepting some trifling in-/ 
tervals of moderate frost, was; during 
the whole. of the month, very mild,’ 
moist, and gloomy, and, at times, ex-) 
tremely wet and stormy; on the 20th, 
Qist, 22d, 25th, and 26th; we hadmest - 
violent hurricanes from the south-west, | 
with torrents of rain and sleet; ‘Which 
swelled the rivers here beyond raid 
banks to,a greater extent than has been» 
witnessed. here for many-years. The: 
last two days of the month were. ex- 
tremely.stormy, when the wind .frem 
the south-west blew in dreadful gusts.) 
In the Monthly Magazines for, Fe- 
bruary 1821, was given a general meteo- | 
rological summary for-the—last twenty 
years, and the general ayerage up to) 
this period is nearly the same, except; 
ing the quantity of ram; the average of 
the last four years has increased “two 
inches. WaiePrrr. 
Carlisle, January 2, 18252-°! : 
SS 
STATE OF THE WEATHEW ATSS 
MANCHESTER, 1q 4 
The quantity of rain that has» fallen 
iu this neighbourhood -during the: last 
four months is great, we believe, almost 
beyond precedent, amounting, accordimg 
to the observations of Mr. John Dalton,: 
to no less than 24°660 inches up ‘tothe 
26th of December. Tlie following are 
the particulars :— 
In September .........- 
In October ....0¢ 05 000% 
In November ........+. 5°510 
In December (to the 26t 
inclusive) 
5-440) itches: 
Total, «see 246690 
Mr. Dalton’s observations’ not- having 
been completed to a later date than the 
26th, we have procured. from another 
gentleman a statement of the rain that 
has fallen since that day, and find that 
it amounts to 1°015 inches, making a 
total in four months of more than 253) 
inches —a prodigious quantity,- when it 
is considered that the average fall of 
rain for a year in this: town is_ about 
34 inches, and in London, only about 
22 inches ; of course, also, this rain -has 
produced frequent floods in) all the 
rivers of the neighbourhood; but ‘they 
have: been- more: remarkable for their 
frequency than their height.» :.i/csq-) 
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