408 METEOKOLOGICAL REPORT, 1869, 



of an incli, which saved all the growing crops. The first dish 

 of peas was gathered on July 4th ; eighteen days later than in 

 1868. 



Wylam. — A fine warm breezy month. 



Barometer— Mean height at 8 a.m., 30-013; highest, 30-420 

 on the 11th ; lowest, 28-850 on the 7th. 



Thermometer — Mean, 62-03° ; mean of fourteen years, 59-07°; 

 excess of 1869, 2-96° ; highest, 84° on the 22nd ; lowest, 40° on 

 the 1st. Mean of wet bulb, 56-93° ; of dry bulb, 62-48°, 



Kainfall — 0*29 inch ; greatest fall, 0-10 inch on the 6th ; days 

 of fall, seven. 



Height of river, 1-2 feet ; highest, 1*4 feet. 



Wind— Resultant, W., 4° S. 



North Shields. — The maximum temperature recorded was 

 78-8° on the 16th, and the minimum 45-2° on the 1st. The 

 rainfall was 1-64 inches below the average of the years 1860-65. 

 The heaviest fall was 0*86 of an inch on the 27th. 



Seaham. — On the 28th there was a very heavy thunder shower 

 at Seaham Harbour, but scarcely any fall at Seaham only one 

 mile distant. 



Hartlepool. — The mean force of the wind for the month was 

 3-49 (Beaufort's scale, 1-12). The maximum force was six. 

 The highest temperature recorded was 80°, and the lowest 50"'. 

 The heaviest rainfall was 0-24 inch. The mean height of the 

 sea in feet above the general level was 0-03. The maximum 

 height 1. 



Solar Halos were seen at Middlesbro' on the 23rd ; at Dar- 

 lington on the 26th. 



Hail fell at Otterburn on the 28th. 



Rainbow was seen at Rothbury on the 22nd. 



Thunderstorms occurred at Byrness on the 26th and 28th ; 

 at Rothbury on the 25th, 26th, and 28th ; at North Shields on 



