320 Mr. Howard's Meteorological Journal. [April, 1824. 



REMARK*. 



Second Month.— 1. Clear morning with white frost : fine day. 2. Very fine day. 

 3. Hoar frost: foggy. 4. Cloudy. 5. Fine: lunar halo at ni^ln. 6. Ditto. 

 7. Drizzling. 8. Overcast. 9, 10. Drizzly. 11. Very tine morning. 12. Drizzly. 

 13. Morning fine: afternoon rainy: night stormy. 14. Cloudy. 15 — 17. Fine. 

 1 8. Cloudy and fine : a little snow in the morning between five and six, which melted 

 immediately. 19. Fine. 20. Drizzly morning: rainy evening. 21. Drizzly: very 

 foggy night. 22. Foggy morning : fine afternoon. 23. Bleak. 24, 25. Fine. 

 26. Bleak: some hail ami snow at three, p.m. 27. Rainy: some hail at half-past 

 eight, a. m. 28. Cloudy : rainy evening. 29. Cloudy. 



RESULTS. 



Winds : N, 4 ; E, 8 ; SW, 5 ; SE, 2 ; W, 5 ; NW, 8 ; NE, 3 ; Var. 1. 



Barometer : Mean height 



For the month 29-963 inches.. 



For the lunar period, ending the 20th 29-929 



For 14 days, ending the 2d (moon south) . . . 29-938 



For 13 days, ending the 15th (moon north) 30'026 



Thermometer : Mean height 



For the month 39-051° 



For the lunar period 40-017 



For days, the sun in Aquarius. 40-216 



Evaporation 0-85 in. 



Rain 2-31 



Laboratory, Stratford, Tliird Month, 24, 1824. R. HOWARD. 



