bOD METEOROLOGICAL EEPOET, 1869, 



much damage to the embankments of the Suir and Barrow ; also 

 at Queenstown. The Railway Stations at Dunkettle and Youg- 

 hal were destroyed. On the 31st there were extraordinarity 

 high tides around the Irish coasts, in the English Channel, the 

 Thames, the Welsh coast, the coast of Cumberland, &c., and 

 great damage was done. 



North Sunderland. — A very dull misty foggy month, with a 

 rare continuance of southerly winds. 



Wallington — The year began with a sharp frost. On the 1st 

 the thermometer fell to 15°, and on the 25th and 26th to 18°. 

 On fourteen nights there was a slight frost. On the 25th snow 

 fell, the only time it did so during the month. The month 

 throughout was very spring like. The 30th and 31st were 

 marked by strong winds. 



Wylam. — A wonderfully fine mild month. 



Barometer— Mean height at 8 a.m., 29-807; highest, 30-394 

 on the 18th ; lowest, 28-725 on the 29th. 



Thermometer— Mean ( mas. + min .-^ 40-59°: mean of fourteen 

 years (including 1869) 37-29°, excess of 1869, 3-30°; highest, 

 55° on the 10th ; lowest 21° on the 1st. Mean of wet bulb, 37-58°, 

 of dry bulb, 39-71°. 



Fall (rain and melted snow) — 1-97 inches; days of fall, twelve; 

 greatest in twenty-four hours, 0-39 inch on the 4th. 



Height of river at Wylam Bridge, 3-6 feet; highest, 8 feet on 

 the 5th. 



Wind (from clouds overhead) — Resultant of month, W., 7° N. 



North Shields. — Cloudy or rainy all the month. The maxi- 

 mum temperature on the 31st was 55-5°, and the minimum was 

 26-6°. On six days the temperature was below 32° on the 

 grass. 



Hartlepool. — The winds were almost entirely southerly: on 

 the 3rd, 17th, and 26th they were polar or northerly for a few 

 hours. At midnight, between the 28th and 29th, a gale sprung 



