METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



From the 1(3th to the 31st May, 1878. 



Recorded daily at Hobart Town, Tasmania, at lOh. 33m. 

 p.m., simultaneously with registration made at 7h. 35m. 

 a.m., at Washington, United States, in pursuance of a pro- 

 position of the late Vienna Congress, for a system of Inter- 

 national Synchronous Observations. 



Private Observatory, Hobart Town. 



Lat. 42° 52' 13" S. Lon- 9h. 49ai. 29 -2.^. E. 



(Registerc'l for tke Riijal Sjcict//, Tasmania.) 



Wind. 



^ fe, 



Weather. 



30-060 52-0 I 11 



I ! 



30195 60-0 I 12-0 



I 



30-220 53 i 11-5 

 30-220 57-5 ! 11-0 



I 



30 140 57 11-0 



80NVV 



30-075 57-0 



I 



30-3i5 570 



30 020J5S0 



I 



29 -^20, 57-0 



29-985 ,55 



30-125 55-0 



30-120 'sOO 

 29-920 55-0 

 29-720 '550 

 29-6G0 5.) 

 29-740,58-0 



11-0 



110 



U-5 



110 



10 



10-0 



11-0 

 10-0 

 100 

 12-0 

 11-5 



94 S 

 71 NW 



81 SE 

 93 N 



88 NW 

 93 NW 



93 S 



94 SE 



87 S 



I 



86 NE 



I 



87 NE 



86 NW 



86 S 



87 N 



87 S 



In. 

 -0 j -03 



I 

 K I -OI',! 



i 

 K ' -03 



-0 1 -0 



i 



-0 I -0 



Moon and 

 starlight 



Steady rain 



Moon and 

 starlight 



Clear moon 

 and star 



Do. do. 



-10 N 



-6 K 



•5 K 



-4 K 



I 



•6' K 



I 



-7 K 



-6 K 



•10! K 



-10 1 KN 



■0 Sky cloudy 



-14 Light rain 



-5 Calm and 

 cloudy 



Stars in the 

 zenith 



■02 

 •0 

 -0 White frost 



Stars round 

 the zenith 



Frosty and 



hazy 

 Do. do. 



Dark clouds 



Sky cloudy 



Cloud sky 

 covered 



Fran-CIS Abbott, F.R.A.S., etc.. Observer. 

 N.B.— The time of registration at Hobart Town, 

 lOh. 33m. p.m., being after dark, renders it impossible 

 to make the wind and cloud records more than ap- 

 pro.ximately correct. The rainfall is measm-ed at 

 7n. 30m. a.m. local time. 



