Meteorological Observations. 287 
RAIN DURING THE PRESENT YEAR. 
Mr. Luke Howard has furnished us with the following monthly 
amounts of rain for this year up to the end of August inclusive :— 
January .... 0°83 
February 0°65 ; : 
oT Eee Ma 1°85 4-69 first four months. 
aE DL TEI 2 2 1°36 
1 ea : 2°00 
CUS Ct tee aa 3°09 ; 
July... 3-95 13°40 last four months. 
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August...... 4°36} 1809 
18-09 in the eight months, 
the usual average of a year being 26 inches. 
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR AUG. 1845. 
Chiswick.—August 1. Fine: cloudy: overcast. 2. Very heavy rain. 3. Cloudy: 
showery : partially overcast. 4. Cloudy: fine: clear. 5. Showery. 6. Very 
fine. 7. Rain: thunder-showers in afternoon: clear. 8. Fine. 9. Rain: 
boisterous, with rain. 10. Overcast. 11. Heavy showers: thunder. 12. Over- 
cast. 13. Slight rain: cloudy: showers. 14. Densely clouded. 15. Cloudy: 
clear and fine. 16,17. Cloudy. 18, Very fine: rain. 19. Foggy: heavy rain. 
20. Very clear: cloudy. 21. Very fine. 22. Cloudless and very fine. 23. Over- 
cast: rain at night. 24. Very fine. 25. Foggy: very fine: rain at night. 26, 
27. Fine. 28. Clear: cloudy. 29,30. Bright sun and very fine. 31. Slight 
haze: very fine: overcast-—Mean temperature of the month 2° below the 
average. 
Boston.— Avg. 1, Windy: rain yesterday (rain p.M.). 2. Fine: rain a.m. and 
rem. 3. Cloudy. 4. Rain. 5, Cloudy: rain a.m.andr.m. 6. Cloudy. 7. 
Cloudy : hail and rain, with thunder. 8. Cloudy. 9. Cloudy: rain early a.m. 
10. Cloudy: rain early a.m.: rain a.m. 11. Cloudy: rainp.m. 12. Cloudy: 
rain early a.m. 13. Cloudy. 14. Cloudy: rain a.m.andr.m. 15. Cloudy: 
rain earlya.M.:raine.m. 16—18. Cloudy. 19. Rain: stormy p.Mm.: rain A.M. 
and p.m. 20. Stormy. 21. Fine: rainr.m. 22. Fine. 23. Fine: rain P.M. 
24, Fine. 25. Fine: rainrp.m. 26. Fine: rain y.m., with thunder and light- 
ning. 27. Fine. 28. Cloudy. 29, 30. Foggy. $1. Fine-—Notso much rain 
in one month since August 1831, nor so cold an August since August 1833. 
Sandwick Manse, Orkney.—Aug. 1. Bright: clear. 2. Bright: cloudy. 3. 
Rain: rain and cloudy. 4. Rain: showers. 5. Cloudy: fine. 6. Bright: 
cloudy. 7. Damp: rain. 8. Muchrain: rain. 9. Bright: clear. 10. Bright: 
damp. 11. Cloudy: drizzle. 12. Cloudy. 13. Cloudy: drizzle. 14, 15. 
Showers. 16. Showers: cloudy. 17. Bright: damp. 18, 19. Showers: cloudy. 
20. Rain: showers. 21. Bright: cloudy. 22. Cloudy: rain. 23. Bright: 
showers, 24. Clear. 25. Rain: clear. 26. Muchrain: rain. 27. Bright: 
clear. 28. Cloudy: clear. 29. Cloudy: damp. 30. Showers: drizzle. 31. 
Fog : drizzle. 
Applegarth Manse, Dumfries-shire— Aug. 1—3. Showery. 4. Rain heavy a.m. 
5, 6. Slight showers. 7. Fine and fair: a fewdrops. 8. Fine and fair. 9. Rain 
allday. 10. Slight shower. 11. Fine: a fewdrops. 12—16. Fine. 17. Rain 
from 11 a.m. 18. Shower. 19. Showers. 20. Fair, but cloudy. 21. Fair 
and fine. 22, Fair, but cloudy: stormy and rain p.m. 23. Heavy showers. 
24, Fine after one shower a.m. 25. Heavy rain: thunder. 26. Fine: one 
shower, 27. Fairand fine. 28. Very fine and clear. 29. Fine, but cloudy. 
30, 31. Very fine. 
Mean temperature of the month ..........sseesseeeeeeeeees 56°°4 
Mean temperature of Aug. 1844 ........0) scesseseeesee 54 °6 
Mean temperature for 23 years ......cccovssesesssnsoveces 5,0 
