Obseevations, November 30 — December 6. 



1843. 



189 



Species of Clouds, &c. 



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Loose scud ; light drizzle. 



Id. ; id. 



Large woolly cirro-cumuli 



cirrous haze to SW. 



Clear. 



Cirro-strati and cirrous haze to E. and S. 



Thick, ribbed, and evenly mottled cirrous clouds, nearly homogeneous. 



As before, but much thicker. 



Irregular, hazy, woolly, and linear cirrous mass, with a little hazy sky in zenith ; breaking a little. 



Cirro-cumuli of all varieties and forms, passing from the finest spots to the largest masses ; some of them hanging lilie bags, Ijing in strata, 

 and other forms 5 in some places of a bluish-grey, with patches of whitish-yellow -<- hazy linear cirri under the cirro-cumuli to NE., radiat- 

 ing from NNW. ; thick and hazy to E. ; feathered and woolly cirri above the cirro-cumuli. 



Woolly cirri to S. 



Long ribbons of thin woolly cirri, radiating from WSW., of different lengths, some of them stretching from the WSW, point of the horizon to 

 45° past the zenith, i.e. 135° ; the whole move from about NNW.; stars of small magnitude are visible through the strips; in passing over 

 the moon they cause a small corona. 



Uncommonly thin haze over the sky ; streaks of ribbon-cirri to E. A beautiful lunar halo 23° radius, the complete breadth of the ring is about i". 



Scud -I— cirrous clouds. 



Scud : cirro-cumuli. Woolly and diffuse cirri cover the whole sky ; strata of loose cirro-cumuli moving slowly : a great band of dense scud with 

 attendant patches of loose thin scud, moving rapidly from WSW., the patches quickest; the whole issues from a misty mass to SW., the 

 patches moving over all parts of the sky and far below the cirrous clouds. 



horizon, 

 icud near the 



0. Nearly as before, but the sky is more completely covered by thin smoky scud. 

 2. Two currents of scud -t— cirri. 



4, Masses of loose smoky scud in two currents: large loose cirro-cumuli, moving slowly -t- cirrous clouds ; bands of cirro-strati and 



6. Cirri and patches of scud ; lunar corona. 

 8. Scud -t— cirrous haze to E. 

 10. Id. 



Scud -I— cirrous clouds. 



Id. 

 Loose scud : linear and mottled cirri. 

 Scud -t— cirro-strati to E. 

 Loose scud : large cirro-cumuli. 

 Scud ■*— linear cirri and cirro-cumuli. 

 Scud -i— cirrous clouds. 



Id. 



Id,, moving rapidly. 



Scud. 



Thin detached masses of scud, very low h— the upper scud is red below. 



Scud -t— dense cirrous clouds ; slight drizzle. 



Patches of scud, cirro-cumulous scud -t- the upper mass of cirrous clouds breaking up into woolly and linear cirri and cirrous haze. 



Masses of scud : woolly, mottled, and diffuse cirri and cirrous haze ; part of a solar halo lately. 



Scud on horizon ; nimbi to S., with cirrous crowns; very black to SE ; be.iutiful strata of cirro-cumuli and mottled cirri, chequered in diffe- 

 rent ways, the strata lying £N£. to WSW., but passing 20° to the S. of the zenith. 



Scud. 

 Id. 

 Id. 



Id. 



Id. ; light rain. 

 Masses of scud near horizon. 

 Masses of thin scud ; passing showers. 



Id. ; cirrous haze to E. and N. 



Masses of scud -t— linear cirri to SW., radiating from NNW. 

 Scud ^— patches of cirri to SE. 



cirrous haze on N. and E. horizon. 



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MAG. AND MET. OBS. 1843. 



