METEOROLOGICAL. JOUENAL. gg^ 



NOTES. 



Ninth Month, 9. Before sunset, after a serene day, cirrus donds, pointinff down- 

 Ward, from the W. 11. Cirro,cirrocumulus, some liry haze: wind westerly by niffht 

 scarce sensible. 14. Cirri and haze in the evening twilight of a bright orange co^ 

 lour. 15. Much wind; clear. l6. a. m overcast : p. ni. clear: twilight duller with 

 cirrostratus. IJ. Much wind: very clear sky. ]8. As yesterday: evening tw'iheht 

 luminous, orange, surmounted with rose coh)ui, the latter somewhat in conveiemc 

 strealfs. 19. Morning twiiight obscure, with dense cirri: much dew: wind am. 

 N. E. Thunder clouds at different heights, some of which moved from the S E 

 There were clouds throujjhout the night, with lightning. 20. Wind a. m. N.E. Thun' 

 der clouds again, which grouped, ai.d passed about 2 p. m, to the W with a few 

 drops: nimbi, with a faint bow in the distance : evening cloudy, with two strata- 

 wind S. E.: much lightning in the S. W. 21. a. m Cloudy. Rain, with distant 

 thiuiderat one and twop. m. : Nimbi Siud cumidostratus : faint bow. 22 a m. Over 

 cast. Wind veered to N. W., apparently by E. Cirri, in lines from N. E. to S W 

 23. a. m. Wind fresh from S. W , with ruin : p. ra. fair, wth various modifications 

 of cloud, which were finely coloured at sunset in the east. 24- a.m. Clear: much 

 dew : fair day, iyut with clouds indicating lain : tvilight milky, with-a blush of red - 

 the raoon disappeared early, behind citrostratus clouds, and it raiped heavily in the 

 night. 25 Cloudy and windy, with rain. 26. a. m Cirrus yath cumulus: o. m shovf. 

 crs. 87. Wmdy: wet. 28 am. Misty: p m. showers, ti/rorfra/a*, and ablush ou 

 the twilight. 2y. Evening, lightning: wtt night, po. Lunar halo. 



Tenth month, \. a.m. Wind S. E, showery. 2. A little before sunrise I observed 

 a stTatiis\i\ the marshes to the S E., very ne; riy reseniblin-; a sheet of water; one which 

 was seen fn-m this vil'age, in similar circum.^taiices, about two weeks since, was actu- 

 ally taken by several persons for an extensive inundation. In the aft. rnoon, large ele- 

 rated cirri and cirrostrafi rapidly passing at sunsttfrom red to gray, indicated a 

 4-enewal of the wet weath-r. 3. Misty mmninaf, with cirrostralus above: very wet 

 p.m. 4. Much wind: cloudy night. 5 Squally. 6. a. m. Cloudy, much wind* 

 evemngcalm; large cirri and cirroitrati, with ablush on the twilight :. a bright blue 

 meteor in the N. W. : wet night. 7. Cloudy, with a gale of wind. 8. Fair. 



RESULTS. 



Barometer: highest observation 30- 19 inches; lowest 28 86 inches; range 1 33 inches. 



Mean of the period 29736 iuches. 



Thesmonneter : highest observation so^ ; lowest 39°; rang'e 41**, 



Mean of the period 57 85". 



Evaporation 393 Inches. Ram 2 39 inches. ' 



From the full moon of last period to the new moon of the present, easterly breezes 

 Vith clear days, and the stratus by night. Evup, ration went on increasing as the wind 

 •became strot|ger: dew fell in plenty, and the small meteors, called shooting stars, were 

 ^undairt. The latter half of the present period briught the accnitomed con^pensa- 

 tion, in rain from the westward : the approach of this was perc eptible for several davs 

 beforehand; and the ground b'ingdry, it was attended at the beginning with some 

 l^iseharges of electricity from tire clouds. ^ 



Several persons, imagining they perceived something extraordinary in the weather 

 have enquired, whether the present co;«e.' could have any influence u^^on the seasons* 

 Jt would be idleto reason upon its power without proof of its tffccts; and these aeain* 

 inys.t be proved to extend, at least, over the whole northern hemisphere ; for which a 

 cwner of our little island is no adequate standard. Jt seems within the limits of pos 

 «ible conjecture to say, that comets way induce some change in the atmosphere of th» 

 planets, by changing the state of the ff^her (if tht,e be any such med.um;) ii:t rposed 

 between these and the sun ; or by affecting the production of luminous matter or. the 

 surface of -the sun rtself A comet appn.aching near to a plane^ would a.so di turh 

 ^e atjposphfire of the latter by the mere effect of its attraction : but >ve have a planet 

 attendant on the Earth, which is doing this evciy d ly, and we are still unpn paicd duly 

 f o appreciate its power. Coivetis are, therefore, at present, out of the province of th* 

 ineteorolugist. 



«..„row.r.„«.^f...6,UU. L. HOWARD, 



