240 Mr. Howard’s Meteorological Journal. [Manrcn, 1819. 
REMARKS. 
First Month.—19. Cirrus with Cirrocumulus, in lines stretching N and S: rain is 
the night. 20. A very fine day: Cirri, p.m. rain and wind in the night, 21. Slight 
hoar-frost: Cirrocumulus. 22. Fair day: rain and wind, evening. 23. Very 
fine. 24. Fair: strong breeze: cloudy. 25. Rain, a.m. 26, Fair day: large 
Cumuli appeared, passing to Cumulostratus with plumose Cirri above : at evening 
there were indications of the Stratus. The Nimbus has heen frequent during the 
past week: the wind generally moderate in the day, and strong tie fore part of 
the night. 29, Morning rather overcast: day fine, with the lighter modifications 
ranging (as frequently of late) in lines Nand S. About 10, a.m. in going to London, 
E observed a solar halo of large diameter, imperfect in its superior and inferior 
part, except a trace at the vertex, but exhibiting, in the points directly N and S 
of the sun, two parhelia, which continued with a faint variable brightness for about 
20 minutes. 30. Wet morning: drizzling most part of the day: wind SE, and 
thenN E. 31. Overcast: rained a little, a, m. 
Second Month.—1. Hoar frost, with Cirri in the sky pointing upwards from a 
base: drizzling rainat night. 2. Snow (for the first time this season) continuing 
most part of the forenoon from sun-rise: then, brilliant sunshine, and frost at 
night, with the Thermometer nearly at the minimum of the present winter. 
3. Rather misty and overcast, a.m.: wet evening. 4. Cloudy: fair, a, m.: showers, 
pm. 5. Misty, drizzling. 6. Very fine, with Cumuli, &c. a, m.: in the after- 
noon, a squall of wind, with a few drups: in the night a gale followed by tain. 
7. Very fine. 8. Fair, with Cirrostratus in parallel bars here and there, under 
uniform haze: at night a lunar halo, very large and colourless, 9, Wet day: 
stormy night. 10. Early this morning it was very tempestuous; but the day was 
fine, with Cumuli carried by a moderate gale, and Cirri scattered like loose hay 
above: at night, with Cirrostratus, a succession of small, ill-formed, but highly 
coloured halos, 11. Fine, with Cumulus, Cirrostratus, and winds. 12, Fine 
morning, then showers (in Londou attended with hail), and much wind at night. 
13, Fine morning : Cumuli capped with Cirrostratus : Nimbi, p.m, with a transient 
rainbow. 14. Slight hoar frost: fine, with Cumulostratus, and a breeze. 
15. Fine: the ground was frozen this morning, and Cirrocumulus at the same time 
above. 16. Overcast morning: wet and windy, p.m. and night. 
RESULTS. 
Winds Westerly, except a week about the New Moon, when they were 
East and South-Kast. 
Barometer : Greatest height... ...s000esceeseee GU'S2 inches, 
APGSE. cis wiec'stioe ss. ow s/eicsivs’© Spieioetn SEDER 
Mean of the period. .........+++++ 29°587 
Fhermometer: Greatest height.........-eese-es0e+ SI? 
Least. ..... ee cceeecesesccscsee ven AS 
Mean of the period........--..+.-- 39°31 
Mean of the Hygrometer.....cscee coccccecrecseee 18 
CANORA.» caecum :.n'c emcinadisosu cee ole woutct ene ann: 
Raitt Fc. 508% Rloview sets tbiee CUE LS ote eileen Me ssnee 2lG inches. 
The observations on the Thermometer, Hygrometer, and Wind, were made at 
the Laboratory, 
Totrzneam, Sccond Month, 20, 1819. lL. HOWARD. 
