80 Mr. Howard's Meteorological Journal. [J-Atf. 



REMARKS. 



JEleve?ith Month. — 2 to 4. Nearly calm : dripping mists, with 

 alternate obscurity, by Cirrostratus, and sunshine. 5. A slight 

 shower at night. 7. A gale at S.W. : showers by night. 

 8. Squally : several showers in the day. 9. Windy, fine, with 

 Cumulus, Cirrus, and Cirrostratus. 10. Misty morning : Cirrus, 

 Cirrostratus: fair day: windy at night. 11. Fine morning: 

 then quickly overcast and wet, a.m. 12. Red sun-rise: then 

 Cirrostratus, speedily general : cloudy till evening : windy at 

 night. 13. Fine morning, with Cirrostratus: fair day: rather 

 windy night. 14. Much Cirrostratus in the morning: rajn by 

 half past nine : fair evening. 15. Wet, gloomy morning : calm 

 and lighter, mid-day: p.m. the wind went to W., and blew 

 strong: clear night. 16. Coloured Cirri with Cirrostratus at 

 Eun-rise : misty : steady breeze, with some appearance of distant 

 rain: cloudy evening. 17. Fair: somewhat windy night. 

 18. Fair : snoio fell within a few miles of us : evening twilight 

 luminous and orange-coloured. 19. Cirrocumulus, Cirrus, and 

 Cirrostratus : abundant dew on the grass all day : veiy fine sky. 

 20. Very misty, a.m.: the trees drip much: fine, p.m. with 

 dew and large Cirri. 21. Cloudy: rather windy: little or no 

 dew this morning : Cirrostratus, Cumulus : the wind to N. at 

 night. 22. Fair : Cirri in lofty bars, stretching N. and S., 

 followed by Cirrocumulus, and a group of clouds among the 

 smoke of the city. 23. Fine, clear morning : grey sky after. 

 24. Cirrostratus, with Cirrus, at sun-rise : a little light rain, 

 p. m. : lunar corona, followed by a large faint halo. 25. Hoar 

 frost: a steady gale through the day, with an appearance of 

 Nimbi in the NW : rain after sun-set. 26 — 28. Fair : somewhat 

 windy, with Cirrostratus, &x. 29. The hygrometer stood at 

 78° till noon : and a little rain fell, a.m. and at night : the bees 

 came out in considerable numbers, continuing about the hive. 

 30. Overcast, windy: the maximum temp, at nine, a.m. or 

 rather, the whole 24 hours warm alike. 



Twelfth Month. — 1. A wet day. 



RESULTS. 



Winds southerly and westerly. 



Barometer : Greatest height 30 - 45 inches 



Least 29-26 



Mean of the period 29-878 



Thermometer : Greatest height 59° 



Least 30 



Mean of the period 47-11 



Mean of the hygrometer, 76°. Rain, 2 inches. Evaporation, 

 1-02 inch, divided as follows : to the 9th, 0*27 ; to the 15th, 

 0-40; to the 23d, 0-23; to the end, 0-12. 



Tottenham, Ticelfth Month, 18, 1817. L. HoWAKD. 



