Meteorological Observations for August 1829. 319 



by brisk winds, less injury has been sustained by the crops than would 

 otherwise have occurred. , /• ^ 



The short summer we have had may be properly referred to the first part 

 of June, and the latter part of July; but we only felt the glow of summer 

 on two or three days of the former month, and the thermometer in the 

 shade has only once reached summer heat; viz. on the 3rd of June. 



The gales from the S.W. and W. on the 18th, 19th, 22nd, 23rd, and 

 27th instant, were scarcely ever felt stronger in this latitude ; they were 

 probably an extension of those tremendous hurricanes that are lelt so 

 powerfully at sea in the West Indies at this season of the year, but blew 

 with the temperature of a boreas in this country in April. From this un- 

 genial state of the weather the barley is not yet ripe in many places ; and 

 some of the wheat on low and moist lands has no doubt been damaged 

 before it was housed; yet as the price is falling in the markets, it cannot 

 have been much injured. 



Considerable atmospherical changes have been indicated throughout the 

 month, by the sudden elevations and depressions of the mercury in the 

 barometer; an instrument whose workings, by means of the mutable pres- 

 sure of the atmosphere, may have been consulted with advantage by agri- 

 culturists in so changeable a period. 



Should the weather now set in fine, the barley and oats may yet be got 

 in uninjured, and the corn crops generally in the northern districts be ga- 

 thered in with greater facility and less trouble than in the southern. 



The atmospheric and meteoric phaenomena that have come within our 

 observations this month, are one lunar and two solar halos, six meteors, 

 three rainbows, lightning and thunder on the I'Jth and 27th ; and twelve 

 gales of wind, or days on which thev have prevailed; namely, one from the 

 North, one from the North-east, one from the South, five from the South- 

 west, two from the West, and two from the North-west. 



REMARKS, 



London. - August 1, 2. Very fine. f^. Fine morning : stormy and wet in 

 the afternoon. 4. Cloudy, with showers. 5. Fine. 6. Hazy and warm. 

 7 8. Very fine. 9. Cloudy: sultry, with heavy ram at night. 10. Wet 

 m'orning : very fine. 11,12. Very fine. 13. Fine, with showers. 14, 15. 

 Stormy and wet. 16. Fine. 1 7. Very fine : rain at night. 1 8--20. Cloudy, 

 with showers. 21 . Very fine. 22. Cloudy: stormy rain at night. 23, 24. 

 Stormy and wet. 25. Very fine. 26—28. Cloudy during the day, with 

 rain and stronggales at night. 29. Fair, but stormy. 30. Fine. 31. Cloudy. 

 Penzance— August 1. Clear. 2. Clear : some rain at night. 3. hair : 

 misty 4, 5. Fair. 6. Rain. 7. Clear. 8. Fair. 9. Fair : ram at night. 

 10. Fair: clear. 11. Clear. 1 2. Fair : rain at night. 1 3. Showers : rain at 

 night. l4.Showers. 15.Fair. le.Clear, 17. Fair: rain at night. IS.Kain. 

 1 9. Clear : showers. 20. Rain : fair. 2 1 . Fair : showers. 22, 23. Rain. 

 04 Fair: showers. 25. Fair. 26. Rain. 27. Showers. 28, 29. hair. 

 30 C;icar. 31. Fair. On the 28th of tiiis month the maximum of the re- 

 gister thermometer was 57°, which was lower than it had been in August 

 for twenty-two years previous. u • 1 



yyoWoH.- August 1 , 2. Fine. 3. Cloudy : rain a.m. and i-.m. 4. Kain and 

 stormy. 5. Rain. 6—9. Fine. 10. Fine : rain early a.m. '1.12- IMne. 

 1 a Riiin. 1 4. Cloudy. 1 5. (Jloudy : rain early a.m. 16. Fine : rain r.M. 

 17 Fine. is. Cloudy : rain early a.m. 19. Stormy. 20, Cloudy. 21. bine. 

 22. Fine: rain i-.m. 23. Cloudy: rain i-.m. 24. Rain : rain early a.m. 

 25. Cloudy. 26. Fine. 27. Stormy : rain early a.m. : rain at night. 28. 

 Stormy. 29. Cloudy. 30. Fine. :J1. Cloudy. 



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