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Mean for month ( max - + min " )= 41-24° 

 Mean for sixteen years 39'27° 



Excess of 1871 8-97° 



Highest reading, 56° on the 19th ; lowest, 26° on the 12th. 



Mean of wet bulb at 8 a.m., 38-82° ; of dry bulb, 40-70° ; dif- 

 ference, 1-88°. 



Fall — Eain, 1*22 inches; snow (melted), 0-32 inch = 1-54 

 inches; greatest fall, 0*39 inch on the 8th ; days of fall, eight. 



River Tyne at Wylam Bridge — Mean height, 3-24 feet ; high- 

 est, 10 feet on the 6th. 



Wind— W., 15° S. 



Solar Halos were seen at Sunderland on the 15th, 17th, and 

 23rd. Lunar Halos were seen at Sunderland on the 7th. Hail 

 fell at Wallington on the 1st and 11th ; at Whitley on the 1st. 

 Snow or Sleet fell at Saughtree on the 3rd and 11th ; at North 

 Sunderland on the 12th ; at Rothbury on the 10th ; at Walling- 

 ton on the 10th; at Cresswell on the 14th, 15th, and 16th; at 

 Meldon on the 1st, 10th, and 11th ; at Gainford on the 10th 

 and 12th ; at Greta Bridge on the 10th and 12th ; at Acklam, 

 near Middlesbro' on the 10th and 12th. Aurora Borealis was 

 seen at Durham on the 22nd. 



March. — 



" March wind and May sun make clothes white and maids dun." 



— Old Proverb. 



Greenwich. — From the 14th to the end of the month the 

 weather was very changeable, the temperature being for two or 

 three days considerably in excess, and then for two or three days 

 much below the average. Taking the whole seventeen days 

 together the excess averaged 1-5° daily. 



The mean temperature of March was 44-9°, being 4° higher 

 than the average of 100 years, and higher than in the correspond- 

 ing month in any year back to 1859, when 46*4° was recorded. 

 The mean high day temperature was 5*4° above the average. 



The mean low night temperature was l - 6° higher than the 

 average. 



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