410 METEOROLOftlCAL REPORT, 1S69, 



From the IStli to the 28th hot and dry. The 24th, the 25th, 

 and 26th were especially warm days. On the night of the 28th 

 there was a sudden fall in temperature. Barometer steady. 



Wallington. — Showers of rain were frequent from July 26th 

 to the 8rd of August. On only three days afterwards through- 

 out the month was there any rainfall of consequence. Crops of 

 all kinds suffered much from drought, and the pastures were in 

 many places quite burnt up. Up to the 28th, which was the 

 warmest day of the year, the weather was all that could be de- 

 sired for harvest work. After that date a great change took 

 place, and the temperature fell very greatly. The wind veered 

 to N.E. about 8 p.m. on the 28th. The maximum thermometer, 

 read at 9 p.m. on the 28th, recorded a temperature of 80° : on 

 the three following days it was 49°, 56°, and 60*5° respectively. 



Whitfield. — On the night of the 11th the thermometer fell to 

 35°, on the 29th to 33°, on the 30th to 31-5°. There was ice on 

 the ponds on the 31st, and yet the 28th was the hottest day in 

 the year when the temperature reached 76°. 



Wylam. — A very fine warm breezy month. 



Barometer— Mean height at 8 a.m., 30-125 ; highest, 30*445 

 on the 17th ; lowest, 29-518 on the 9th. 



Thermometer — Mean, 57-75°; mean of fourteen years, 58-87°; 

 deficiency of 1869, 1-12°; highest, 91° on the 29th; lowest, 

 40° on the 3rd. Mean of wet bulb, 53-03° ; of dry bulb, 56-42°. 



Rainfall — 1-25 inches; greatest, 0-32 inch on the 4th; days 

 of fall, ten. 



Height of river, 1-66 feet; highest, 1-7 feet. 



Wind— Resultant, W., 18° N. 



North Shields. — The maximum temperature on the 28th was 

 81°, and the minimum 40-3° on the 31st. The rainfall was 1-56 

 inches below the average of the years 1860-5. 



Sunderland. — At West Hendon House on the 28th the ther- 

 mometer reached 85°. At 2 p.m. a slight E. wind came on and 

 cooled the air considerably ; but it continued very hot until 7 p.m. 



