METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 
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GOVERNMENT OBSERVATORY, SYDNEY. 
LAatrruDE, 88° 51’ 41”; 
LONGITUDE, 104 4™ 50°81* ; 
Magnetic VARIATION, 9° 35’ 37” East. 
Height above Mean Sea- “level, 146 feet. 
MARCH, 1884.—Gernerat ABSTRACT. 
Barometer ... Highest Reading... .. 80°267 inches on the 6th, at 10 p.m. 
a 3° Faht., ‘bat a corrected to sea- -level. 
est Reading . 29'°548 ,, on the 10th, at 3 p.m. 
Moon Height .. 29°961 
(Being 0°071 inch greater tl 
t 
Wind... Greatest Pressure 15°1 Ibs. on the 17th. 
ean Pressure ... ae OB Ib. 
Number of Days Calm ... 2. 
Prevailing — N.E. 
(Prevailing direction duri th for the p ge 25 N.E.) 
Temperature aint in the Shade 90°2 on the 1st. 
Low the Shade 51°8 on the 17th. 
ae t Ran we 22°3 on the Ist. 
Highest in the Sun 143-7 on the 9th. 
Lowest on the Gra 45°7 on the 17th 
ean Diurnal Range 13°9 
Mean in the Shade 68-4 
Humidity Greatest Amount 94-0 on the 12th. 
sae 41:0 on the 26th. 
Mean = 67°2 
(Being 9:1 less than that of th th ge of the P g 2% ) 
Rain ... ..« Number of Days... = Ore 2 dew 
Greatest Fall... Oe lk 40 abe on the 18th. ual 
06 » 65 ft. above gro 
Total Fall... mi ® $5in, bore eon 
Evaporation Total Am 2-647 inches. 
Electricity Number of Das Lightning 0 
Cloudy Sky Mean Am nO 
Number of hee “Days a 0 
Meteors  ... Number observed ee 
Remar 
This month has been very dry in — arou 
than usual. Inland, and on part of the ania near Sydney 
little rain, but in the omen _ south-east dist: ricts i in so 
Dry. as 
the month has been, ve 
a ‘Sydney, and o Pate t — 
re has been 
sen moderate ate 
nall the month, 
fall. 
but in the great aaieiite of ae the little rain that “did "fall was sein sufficient to 
any relief. 
