240 Mr. Howard's Meteorological Journal. [March, 1818. 



REMARKS. 



First Month. — 1. Fine. 2. Much wind in the night: snow by morning. 3. 

 After some snow, a thaw, p.m. 4. Small rain, a.m.: fair, p. m. : starlight. 

 5. Wet stormy day : clear night. 6. Hoar frost: fair. 7. Fair, a.m.: cloudy, 

 p.m.: a gale, with rain, during the night. 9. Wet mid-day: the Cirrocumulus 

 has appeared two or three times within a week past. 10. Cirrus and CirrostratUi 

 at sun-set, rose-coloured, followed by a gale with rain. 11. Gloomy, a.m. with 

 small rain, p. m. and night as yesterday. 12. Fine day: a gale again in the night. 

 13. The gale continued, with cloudy weather: the night, after a calm evening, 

 was stormy. 14. Wet stormy day : in the evening, Cumulus, with Cirrostratus 

 and Cirrus : the air clearing : much wind in the uight. 15. Much cloud and wind, 

 a.m.: small rain, p.m.: night stormy. 16. Fair, with a gloomy sky, a.m.: 

 some rain, p. m. : a heavy gale in the night. 17. The wind is now more moderate, 

 with a tendency to N.W : a very fine day and night. 18. Fair, with a breeze: a 

 squall, with a little rain, p. m. : bright moonlight. 19. Fine. 20. Red Cirrostrati 

 at sun-rise, with hoar frost : fine day, with Cirrostratus in flocks : Cirrocumulus, 

 and Cirrus, with a rainy aspect. 21. Gloomy overcast morning : some wind and 

 rain by nine: afterwards fine with Cumulus, and a breeze from NW : lunar halo. 

 22. Fine : windy, p. m. : in the fore part of the night, a heavy southerly gale, with 

 showers. 23. Fine, windy: the barometer fluctuating: lunar corona at night: 

 the wind NW. 24. Rain very early : wet forenoon, p. m. and night fair : windy. 

 25. Fine a. m. with Cirrus and Cirrostratus: windy night. 27. Much wind in the 

 night, followed by rain. 28. Large Cumuli, with Cirri above; and the rapid deve- 

 lopment of Cumulostrati presented this afternoon a spring-like sky. 29. Hoar 

 frost: fair day : a thickness to the S. and W. p. m. was followed by a nocturnal 

 gale, with rain, as usual of late. 



RESULTS. 



Winds Westerly, introduced by the South East. 



Barometer : Greatest height 30-43 inches ; 



Least 28-98 inches; 



Mean of the period 29-78 ; inches. 



Thermometer : Greatest height 53° 



Least 21° 



Mean of the period 38*46 # 



Mean of the hygrometer 78-5° 



Rain 2-32 inches. 



Character of the period, stormy and changeable : amidst a succession of gales 

 •f wind, there were many intervals of fine weather by day ; and, as the thermo- 

 meter shows, of frost by night. 



TottSXham, Second Month, 20, 1818. L. HOWARD. 



