320 Mr. Howard's MeteoroIogicalJournal. [April, 1820. 



REMARKS, 



Second Month. — I. Hoar frost: very fine day. 3 — 6. Cloudy. 7, 8. Fine. 

 9. Cirrocumultts : fine. 10. Fog»y morning: drizzly. 11, 12. Cloudy: some 

 rain. 13. Very fine morning. 14, 15. Fine. 16. Hoar frost: niisly: then fine, 

 'wilh Cirrocumulus. 17, 18. Hoar frosts : clear, a.m. 19. Overcast: some snow 

 in the evening. 20. Ground covered with snow this morning from two to three 

 .inches in depth: it continued to snow, with very little intermission tlirough the 

 day. 21. Foggy morning, with thaw : about five inches of snow on the ground. 



22 24. Overcast. 25. Overcast: windy. 26. Bleak wind. 27. Fine, 



28, 29. Hoarfrost: fine, with Cirrocumulus. 



RESULTS. 

 Winds: N, 1 ; NE, 9; NW,3; W, 3 ; SW, 5; S, 1 ; SE, 4 ; E, 1 ; Var. 2. 



Barometer: Mean height 



For the month , 30-058 inches. 



For the lunar period, ending the 6th 30*005 



For 15 days, ending the 3d (moon norih) 29-937 



For 1.^ d.iys, ending the 16th (moon south) 30*166 



Thermometer: Mean height 



For the month 36-379<» 



Fur the lunar period, ending as above 32-765 



For 29 days, the sun in Aquarius 35'15S 



Hygrometer: ]\Iean for the mouth 91 



Evaporation 0-90 inch. 



Rain I'Ol 



Mean temperature at Tottenham 36-827" 



Hygrometer at ditto 81° 



Rain at ditto 1-27 in. 



*, * The late winter may be considered as having ended with the deep snow oa 

 the 20th, followed by a thaw on the 2l3t, though the spring has been frosty at 

 times since: this snow occurred just 60 days after the shortest day ; and the snow 

 on the 21st of tenth month, 1S19, was just 60 days before it : thus the winter may 

 be said to have lasted 120 days, with some mild intervals, the solstice being in the 

 iQidst of the time. 



ERRATUM IN LAST MONTH. 



For Aquarius read Capricorn. 



CiAorator)/, Stratford, Third Month, 25, 1820. L. HOWARD. 



