The Meteorology of Whitehaven. 377 
Mean State of the Barometer and Thermometer at Canaan 
Cottage, near Edinburgh. By A. ADIB, Esq. 1844. 
Lat. 55° 57’. Height above the mean level of the Sea, 246 feet. 
| Thermo- Registering 
a meter ff Thermometer. Barometer. 
MonrTus. JODPREYEUr Rain. 
| 10 sot ant Means of 
Mean. Minimum. | Maximum.| Morning. | Evening. 
January .......3: 38.48 32.22 | 54.22 29.28 29.63 
February......... | 34.52 22.43 | 4651 29,25 29.26 
MVEA CH ere savecenr rs | 35.29 39.35 | 62:59 | 29:16 29.45 2.43 
Apr! Jerse d22 ne. | 51.17 48.33 | 58.50 29.76 29.73 0.40 
Ways 3. c0ccsssess <2 ie 5876 39°23 | 58.42 29.99 30.10 0.15 
DUNC 2-2 nc0sccaee 58.14 46.66 | 64.26 29.65 29.65 2.71 
EU 252-5 -2405--. 57.79 48.39 | 65.39 29.62 29.65 2.39 
August............ 56.09 46.93 | 64.68 29.19 29.54 2.11 
September......... 53.18 48.00 | 60.29 29.82 29.81 2.40 
October ........... 41.20 40.11 | 6583.23 29.60 29.69 0.82 
November ........ 44.15 38.40 | 48.03 29.52 29.45 3.92 
December ........ 36.63 28.90 , 36.42 29.84 29.88 0.37 
Annual Mean...| 47.12 39.32 | 55.77 29.55 29.65 | 20.65 
47.55 29.60 
The Meteorology of Whitehaven. Remarks on the Weather, &§c., 
of 1844. By J. F. Minumr, Esq. Communicated by the 
Author. 
It must have been obvious even to the most casual observer of atmo- 
spheric changes, that the past year has been marked by several periods 
of extreme drought. Indeed, except in 1842, there is no year which at 
all approaches it in dryness, since the Journal was commenced in 1832. 
The quantity of rain taken by the gauge in 1844 is 36.723 inches, being 
2.030 inches under the fall in 1842, and nearly 12 inches under the ave- 
rage. 
The wet days exceed those of 1842 by 5, but are 32 under the average 
number, which is 204. 
The principal periods of drought in 1844, are as follow :—From the 
23d of April to the 5th June, rain fallen .262, or about a quarter of an 
inch: 25th June to 10th July, none: 23d August to 5th September, 
none ; and there was but one wet day from the 17th of the same month 
till its close: from 19th November to 31st December (44 days), 0.405, 
or between a quarter and half an inch, The quantity of melted snow is 
above the average by 0.774, or more than three quarters of an inch, and 
the number of snowy days also exceed the average number by seven. 
The fall of rain at Cleator, four miles S. of Whitehaven, registered by 
T. Ainsworth, Esq., is 39.31 inches, and the wet days 152. 
Last year we gave the results of some experiments with two gauges 
(the one placed at 6 inches, and the other at 6 feet above the ground) 
which were apparently at variance with what has been considered by 
most Meteorologists a well-established fact, “that where a gauge is 
merely removed to a higher position in the atmosphere, independent of 
