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August very wet. September a fine harvest month 



September 12. Extraordinary storm of thunder, light- 

 ning, and wind, at Enghien (Hone). 



February 27. Hard gale (Whistkcraff). 



No wheat cut in the South of England till September. 

 From 26th June to 3ist August almost perpetual rain. 

 Severe frost from October 3rd to end of month (Dorset 

 Notes). 



The summer almost unceasingly cold and rainy 

 (Knapf). 



Scarcely a moth or butterfly appeared (Knapf). 



Excessive heat on June 2ist and 25th. Thermometer, 

 87 (Brumham). 



Rainfall at Greenwich, 26-59 m - (Glaisher). 



4-13 in., in May. 3-86 in., in July. 



Jan., 2*85 in. Feb., 1-19 in. March, 1-90 in. April, 

 0-06 in. June, 1*54 in. Aug., 2-53 in. Sept., o'8i in. 

 Oct., 2-39 in. Nov., i '80 in. Dec. 3*53 in. (Glaisher). 



January 8. An earthquake felt in Nottinghamshire. 

 2 1 st. Dreadful storm at Plymouth. February 8. Au- 

 rora borealis. March 20. The floods so great round 

 Oxford that the city appeared like an island. June 21. 

 At Gloucester, thermometer stood at noon in the shade 

 at 103, at Weymouth, 112. The magnetic needle which 

 had for many years taken a western declination from the 

 meridian returned towards the north (Boyle). 



The weather till harvest was wet and unfavourable, and 

 the harvest itself was late ; but the weather cleared up the 

 last few days of August and continued favourable through 

 a great part of September, but it was foggy and calm with 

 only short intervals of brilliant sunshine ; and as the rains 

 again set in before the harvest was fully completed, the 

 samples of wheat were damp and cold, but the eventual 

 produce proved better than had been supposed (Tooke). 

 1818 Wheat, 86*. $d. per qr. (Official Returns). 



