Meteorological Olservations at various Places. 690 



'I^ov. 2. — Fair clay, with common ephemeral cumuli. Fine 

 starlight night, and rather cooler again. The Barometer 30* 10. 

 Thermometer 44° at midniglit, 



Nov. 3. — Cold nortiierly wind this morning ; elevated masses 

 oihe^i-vy cirrostratus ; cinmdi formed under them; there were 

 also fibrous detachments descending : the whole appearance 

 threatened rain about two of the afternoon, but the fair-weather 

 returned. Barometer at midnight 30'3S. Thermometer 42®. 



Nov. 4. — Clear, except •matures of the lighter modifications. 



Nov. 5. — Clear, with )i.2.'it features of ci/T«5, &c. and small 

 cumtdi ; the night c"K)LKied, and became warmer. 



Nov. 6. — Fine clear white frost, with light features of cirrus, 

 &ic. In the evening clouded, and small rain. 



Nov, 7. — Clouded morning; fine clear day; cold frosty night. 



Nov. 8. — Gentle nimbification in tbe morning; fine after- 

 wards, when I noticed cirrostrati/s of nimbiform kind spread in 

 various stations aloft, and cumtdi under. In the evening (Ther- 

 mometer 50°) cirrocumulus followed by rain. I heard the 

 hoarse screams of migrating wild geese about 11 P.M. 



Nov. 9. — Fair cool day, with much cloud. 



Nov. 10. — Cloudy, but without rain. 



Nov. 11. — (At Bury St. Edmunds.) — Fine clear warm day, 

 v,'ith cumuli, cirrostralns, &c. Evening clouded with small rain. 



Nov. 12. — (At Norwich.) — Cloudy morning; the afternoon 

 became fine and cooler. 



Nov. 13. — Cold wind, with a hard shower of hail and rain 

 about daybreak, afterwards chieflv cloudy and raw. 



Nov. 14. — (Ixworth.) — Raw cold day, and strong wind; but 

 the nightwas calm and warmer. 



Nov. 1.5. — White frost followed by showers of snow*. 



Nov. 16. — Showers of saovv and sleet, with wind. 



Nov. 17. — (At Cambridge.) — Clear morning; cirrostralus 

 condensing and Iklling in snow showers. At midnight the Ba- 

 rometer was 3068, and the Thermometer within doors in a- 

 room without a fire 33=^ of Fahrenheit. The night was clear, and 

 the moon very brilliant. 



Corp. Clir. Coll. Cantab. ThoMAS FoUSTER. 



Nov. 18. 1815, 

 P. S. — As I am collecting matter for a future publication on 

 Meteorology, I shall be obliged to any of your correspondents 

 who can communicate to me, through your Magazine, or by other 

 means, any journals or other meteorological observations kept 

 in the distant parts of the country or, abioad. 



• They have a provrrhial saying in Norfolk, " Three rimes and then a 

 rain," in allusion to wliitu frost; which is ot'trn the result of a c/;to.';//y//.'/.s-. 

 JUul the fall ol'ten happens betore the iliird limt. 



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