44 METEOROLOGICAL REPORT, 1872, BY. THE 



Y. — Meteorological Report for 1872. Edited by the Eev. 11. E. 

 Wheeler, M.A., and the Eev. E. E. Hooppell, LL.D. 



The editors have again to thank the many friends who so kindly 

 and laboriously from day to day make the countless observa- 

 tions which it is their privilege to reduce and sum up. They 

 deeply regret that the straitened funds of the Club have this 

 year made it a matter of absolute necessity very greatly to cur- 

 tail the Eeport on Meteorology. This has compelled them, very 

 much against their will, to omit many observations of interest 

 and importance, and to give up some summaries of their own on 

 the many interesting and exceptional features which the Meteo- 

 rology of 1872 presents. 



NOTES ON THE MONTH. 



January. — 



Now blustering Boreas sends out of his quiver 



Arrows of snow and hail which makes men shiver. 



— Poor Robin. 



Greenwich. — The warm weather which set in on December the 

 13th, 1871, following the previous period of unprecedented cold, 

 continued with very few and slight exceptions until March 1 8th. 



The mean temperature of January was 41-3°, being 5° higher 

 than the average of 101 years. Since 1771 there have been nine 

 Januaries of somewhat higher temperature. That of 1796 was 

 45*3°; 1804, 43'2; 1834, 44*4; 1846, 43-7°; 1851, 42-9° ; 1852, 

 42-0°; 1853,42-4°; 1863,41-8°; 1866,42-6°. 



The range of the barometer was 1*8 inches. The minimum 

 reading on the 24th, 28-21 inches, is lower than any since 1843, 

 January the 13th, when it was 28-096 inches, and on December 

 the 24th, 1821, 27'89 inches. 



North Sunderland. — A wretchedly dull damp month, veiy great 

 variations in the barometer with extraordinary depressions on the 

 1 8th and 24th. Very strong gale on the 8th. 



Eothbury. — Thermometer lowest on the 10th and highest on 

 the 30th and 31st— 52°. 



"Wallington. — The year began with a strong gale of wind from 

 the S.E., with rain, snow, and hail. Eain fell on seventeen days, 



