BY GEORGE CLAYTON ATKINSON, ESQ. 175 



The mean temperature was 37-8°; 3-16° below 40-96°, the ten 

 years' mean. The lowest point was 24°, on the night of the 

 26th ; and the highest 55°, on the 31st. 



At Seaham Harbour. — Strong winds, squally. 



April. — Pine month; barometer very steady, not ranging three- 

 fourths of an inch throughout the whole of it. 



Mean temperature 48-81, which is 3-12° above 45-69°, the ten 

 years' average. The lowest was 30°, on the night of the 1st; 

 the highest 69°, on the 8th. Wind So., 5° "W. 



At Otterburn. — Thunder from 13th to 17th. 



At Seaham Harbour. — Light winds, foggy. 



May. — Yery fine, excepting during the second week, which 

 was chill and rainy. The range of the barometer did not exceed 

 one inch ; gradually rising from 29-25 on the 1st, to 29-85 on 

 20th, when it fell as gradually to 29-3 on 29th; and then very 

 suddenly to 28-85 on 30th. On this day severe thunder storms 

 occurred at Allenheads, Haltwhistle, on the line of the Caledo- 

 nian Eailway, and in other parts of Scotland ; the rain in some 

 places falling in waterspouts. 



The temperature of the month was 52-74° ; 1-12° above 51*62°, 

 the ten years' average. The thermometer was lowest on the 

 night of the 30th, when it was 38°; and highest on the 27th, 

 when it was 75°. 



There was a good deal of rain on the three last days of the 

 month, which brought the salmon up the Tyne in great numbers. 

 Through the kindness of my friend, Mr. Robert Forster, of New- 

 burn, an old and experienced salmon fisher, I am enabled to state 

 pretty accurately the take of salmon after the flood which took 

 place on the 30th, viz. : — 



At Ben well 2 



Crook 100 



Bell's Close , , . . , 4 



Eltringhaiu , . „ . 45 



Ovingham „ 100 



Ryton 352* 



Total 603 



* Between midnight of 30th and midnight of 31st. 



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