S20 Meieorolog'cal Journal. [ApRit, 1814/^ 



REMARKS. 



Second Month. — 12. Cloudy. At half-past ten, a.m. after a 

 peculiarly unpleasant atmosphere, with a breeze from S.E. during 

 the morning, a shower of burnt pafjei, in fragments of various 

 sizes, began to fall over the whole village. It continued ?o long, 

 and descended from such a height, that we necessarily referred for 

 its cause to some great fire in London. It proved to originate from 

 the burning of the Custom House, (distant in a right line about 

 five miles, S.) at which tiiere liaj oenert an explosion of gunpowder. 

 13. Misty morning. 14. Ciimidiis cJouds, beneath Cinouimidus 

 and Cirrostratus. 15. Fine morning : Cmnidus: breeze. Even- 

 ing twilight clear orange, and the stars brilliant. 16. Cloudy 

 morning : strong breeze : fine clear day. 17. Fine day : Cumulus 

 with Cirrus. 18. Much hoar frost: fine morning: some rain, 

 evening. 19, 20. Hoarfrost. 21. The same : the moon visible, 

 and very well defined at six, p. m. 22, 2.S. Hoar frosr. 24. The 

 same : Cirrus clouds, in parallel stripes from N. to S all day : 

 min. temp, at the Laboratory, Stratford, 1-5°. 25, 26. Hoar frost. 



27. Hoar frost : Cirrus, in stripes from N. to S. : lunar haloi 



28. Cirrostratus appears : the stones grow moist, and the wind has 

 a hollow sound. 



Third Month. — 1. Damp and cloudy : hollow wind : sleet, p.m. 

 2. Rain and sleet at intervals 3 — 8. Snow at intervals : the 

 conntrv has become again white with snow. 9. Snow, more plen- 

 tiful, in the night. 10, 11, 12. Snow at intervals: which, in 

 northern exposures, lies to some depth, 



RESULTS. 



Prevailing winds Easterly. 



Barometer : Greatest height 30*42 inches; 



Least 28'97 inches ; 



Mean of the period 2V-S89 inches; 



"ITiermometer: Greatest height 48° 



Least 18° 



Mean of the period 31 '93° 



Evaporation, 0-53 inch, the water in the gage being most of the 



time solid. 

 Rain and melted snow 0'95 inches. 



»»• The barometer and thermometer for the first ten days of the third monti 

 were noted at the Laboratury, Stratford. 



Somi- intended veinarlis on the present winter (as we are still obliged to term it) 

 camjiared with a former one, arc necessarily deferred. 



TOTIENHAM, L. HOWARD. 



Third Month, 19, 1814. 



