METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, 



From October 1 to October 15, 1878. 

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

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

 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. 49m. 29 '28. E. 



(Registered for the Royal Society, Tasmania. ) 



WeaLher. 



II -0 

 13-0 

 11-5 

 11-0 

 13-5 

 15-0 

 11-0 

 9-5 



12-5 82 

 100 



7 



81 



100: 81 



13-0 82 

 9 64 



NW 



N 

 S 

 NW 

 NW 

 NW 

 NW 

 NW 



N 

 SE 

 NW 

 NW 



N 

 NW 



sw 



2-60 



-0 



•52 



-52 



-25 



2-60 



-25 



•26 



-5 



-52 



-52 



-52 



-0 



-26 



2-60 



K 

 K 



KN 



K 



K 



•0 



K 



K 

 KN 



K 



K 



KN 

 KN 



10 KN 



I 



In. 



•06 



Moon and 

 starlight 



Do. do. 

 Lightning 



Cloud, sky 

 covered 



Sky hazy 



Moon, cloud 

 and wind 



Moon and 

 starlight 



Do. do. 

 Sky cloudy 

 Sky hazy 



Cloud and 

 haze 



Moonlight 



Moon,cloud 

 thunder 



Much rain 



•06 Squally all 



I day 



Francis 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- 

 proximately correct. The rainfall is measm-ed a6 

 7h. 30m. a.m. local time. 



