292 a year's weather. 



of autumnal red, foretelling a bright to-morrow, and showed us, 

 who would read, how highly penetrative were the red and yellow 

 rays of light, which, together with blue rays mainly, make white 

 light in the expanse of atmosphere we gazed up at. 



October 2nd, 1889. 



An average of forty October rainfalls here gives four and 

 three-quarter inches of rain. Our rainfall last month, 5.43-inches, 

 nearly three-quarters of an inch above the average, tells how wet 

 the month was ; yet, compared with many October rainfalls, it 

 showed very favourably. In the same month in 1886 we had 6*265 

 1885, 8*82 ; and in 1880, 9/23-inches of rain. During the last 

 forty years we have had thirteen wetter Octobers, that is, one-third 

 of them have had greater rainfalls. Our wettest day was on the 

 1 8th, 1 ^-inches of rain. On the 1 6th of October, 1880, the fall 

 was 3'o, three inches of rain in one day ! Our average number of 

 wet days in October is twenty ; last month it rained on twenty- 

 six days. We had four days of sunshine, nine on which the 

 sun shone for a short time, chiefly in the mornings ; and eight on 

 which the sun was seen behind clouds, but not able to shine through. 

 It was a month of battle between cumulus and nimbus clouds, 

 which ended in favour of the later, as winds favourable to rain 

 prevailed 5 in sixty-two observations no easterly, and twenty-eight 

 north-westerly winds and gales were noted. The heaviest rains 

 were in the night, but on the 8th we had forty tons of rain to the 

 acre between 9 a.m. and 12 noon. 



Our highest daily temperature was 65 degrees on the 3rd and 

 4th ; our lowest 29 degrees on the 14th, 3 degrees of frost, the range 

 of temperature was ^6 degrees, the mean daily heat 577 degrees, 

 the mean night temperature 41*8 degrees. 



The highest reading of the barometer was on the 24th, 30*14, 

 the lowest on the 19th, 29*i6-inches, a range of '98, nearly one inch. 



We had rainbows, gales, frosts, and one thick fog • how 

 delightfully favoured Truro was compared to several great centres 

 of industry visited by us in the north of England in October. 



