50 METEOROLOGICAL EEPOET, 1872, BY THE 



Newcastle-on-Tyne. — On the 18th a very heavy thunderstorm 

 passed over the district about mid-day. Yery large hail fell in 

 Newcastle, South Shields, and other places. No hail fell at 

 Whitley. The storm extended from Morpeth to Peterborough. 

 Between 1*45 p.m. and 2*30 p.m., 0-52 inch of rain fell at Whitley. 



Cullercoats. — Yery large takes of salmon were secured. On 

 one day, the 12th, more salmon was brought into Cullercoats 

 than in any week previously known. On the 18th and 25th 

 there were also very heavy takes. (See page 60, last table.) 



July. — 



If it rain on the feast of St. Processus and St. Martin 

 it suffocates the corn. 



— Latin Proverb. 



Greenwich. — The mean temperature of July was 65°, being 

 higher than the average of 101 years. 



The daily range of temperature was greater than the average. 



The readings of the barometer were very steady. The range 

 was little more than half an inch. The departures of the mean 

 daily values from the average were small throughout. 



The fall of rain was 0*1 inch in defect of the average in July. 



North Sunderland. — A moist warm month, but very little sun. 



Rothbury. — Thermometer highest on the 21st, 83° in the shade. 



Byrness. — On the 29th there was a very heavy thunderstorm, 

 accompanied by very destructive hail. The hail cut down the 

 vegetables, and did great damage in other ways. 



Wylam. — A fine month with a good deal of thunder and light- 

 ning, the latter in many cases causing death, though not in this 

 immediate neighbourhood. These storms did not change the ex- 

 ceptionally high temperature, which prevailed, till the 28th, when 

 it began to fall. It had been singularly even till that time, as 

 was the atmospheric pressure during the whole month, the ex- 

 treme range of the barometer being less than half an inch (-455). 



The thermometer attained its maximum for the year on the 

 5th, viz., 86°. 



Wallington. — The weather during July was very favourable 

 to vegetation. The temperature was higher than in June. Hay 



