200 METEOROLOGICAL ABSTRACT. 



1799. 

 REMARKS. 



The year 1799, though it afterwards proved fo unfavourable, began with very- 

 mild weather. January was uncommonly pleafant, and the wind generally from 

 the S. W. 



In the beginning of February, the wind changed to N. E. ; on the 7th, the ther- 

 mometer flood at 12° \ and the morning of the 9th was remarkable for the moft 

 violent ftorm of wind and fnow that is remembered in this country : the wind was 

 a little fouth of eaft, and the thermometer as low as 25 . The fame day afforded a 

 ftriking example of the viciffitudes in our climate ; for the ftorm, which began about 

 one in the morning, having continued till noon, the wind foon after came to the 

 S. W. ; a thaw began immediately, and in the evening the thermometer ftood 

 at 40 . The froft, however, foon returned, but without feverity ; the weather in 

 the latter end of the month was mild, though the fnow, which had been much 

 drifted on the 9th, ftill lay deep in many places. 



On the 3d of March, the wind came to the N. E., and the feiies of cold and dis- 

 agreeable weather began, which extended over almoft all the remainder of the year. 

 The winds, during the whole of March, were dry and parching ; the nights frofty, 

 and the mean temperature hardly above that of February. 



Atril was equally unfavourable ; it fnowed frequently, and the wind, though 

 often in the weft, was always fo far to the north, that it was never accompanied 

 with warmth. Even at the end of the month there were fcarce any figns of vegeta- 

 tion, and the trees feemed hardly farther advanced than in February. 



Through the whole of May the feafon continued extremely backward; the 

 wind, whether in the eaft or the weft, was always far to the north, and the medium 

 temperature of the month about 3 lower than in ordinary years. 



June was a little more favourable ; and indeed the only part of the feafon that 

 afforded any thing like good fummer weather, was the laft ten days of June, and the 

 firft ten of July. The mean temperature, during that time, was about 6o°, and was 

 not fo high, by feveral degrees, for any other period of the fame length in the whole 

 fummer. 



From this time the weather became continually colder. There was little funftiine, 

 and a great deal of rain, during the remaining part of July, and the whole of Au- 

 guft and September. 



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