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heavy gales. From the 19th the vs^eather v/as on the whole fa- 

 vourable to the harvest. 



Wallington. — Eain fell on twenty-four clays and much diffi- 

 culty was experienced in getting in the oat crop. Much of the 

 crop had to be left out in the fields until October and was 

 greatly damaged by the wet. 



Whitfield. — A remarkably wet mxOnth. 



Wylam. — ^A fine month, with a great deal of wind. 



Barometer — Mean height at 8 a.m., 29-676 ; highest, 30-453 

 on the 1st ; lowest, 29-029 on the 12th. 



Thermometer — Mean, 56-40°; mean of fourteen years, 54*84°; 

 excess of 1869, 1-56°; highest, 71° on the 9th and 10th; lowest, 

 41° on the 22nd. Mean of wet bulb, 52-30° ; of dry bulb, 56-10°. 



Eainfall — 2-94 inches ; greatest, 0-63 inch on the 13th ; days 

 of fall, seventeen. 



Height of river, 2-59 feet ; highest, 8 feet on the 18th. 



Wind— Resultant, W., 23° S. 



North Shields. — The maximum temperature w^as 69-5° on the 

 25th ; the minimum 43° on the 22nd. Rain fell on twenty- one 

 days, and the quantity was 1*12 inches in excess of the average. 



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

 4-29 (Beaufort's scale, 1-12). The maximum force was eight. 

 The highest temperature recorded was 69°, the lowest 45°. The 

 greatest rainfall in any one day was 0*97 inch. The mean 

 height of the sea in feet above the general level was 0-43. The 

 maximum height 3. The maximum force in cwts. per square 

 foot was eight. 



Solar Halos were seen at Sunderland on the 3rd, 8th, 9th, 

 11th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 23rd; at Darlington on the 16th 

 and 19th. 



Lunar Halos were seen at Rothbury on the 16th, at North 

 Shields on the 16th ; at Sunderland on the 14th, 16th, and 

 20th, 



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