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registered. A violent storm of wind accompanied the depres- 

 sion, a strong to whole west gale raging during the afternoon 

 and evening. Mr. Picot's comment on the fierceness of this 

 gale at Alderney has already been given. 



February, though not a cold month, gave a rather big 

 number of hoar frosts. During the night from the 25th to 

 the 26th the sheltered thermometer dropped to 28*2 deg. 

 This was the first air frost, as also the coldest night, of the 

 1914-15 winter at Les Blanches. March gave three addi- 

 tional air frosts — the sharpest, on the 20th, sent the glass 

 down to 29' 1 deg. — and as late as April 1st a reading of 

 31*0 deo\ was registered. 



As compared with the average the weather was colder 

 in March than in either of the two preceding months. 

 Actually there was very little difference in the means of the 

 three months, but a marked tendency to cold in March, espe- 

 cially at the end, when snow fell, checked the normal seasonal 

 advance with the result that the month with a mean tempera- 

 ture of 43*2 deg. proved 0*1 deg. colder than January ! 

 Rainfall was slight all through and, at the three stations, 

 there was no precipitation from the 12th to the 20th. A 

 strong biting east wind prevailed from the 26th to the 29th. 

 On the 30th from one to two inches of snow fell at Guernsey 

 and Sark, and for a few hours the countryside looked extremely 

 cold and wintry. Alderney escaped the visitation altogether. 

 This tardy and short-lived shower was the only snowfall of 

 the winter. 



A remarkably fine fireball travelling from S.E. to N.W. 

 passed right overhead at 7'47 p.m. on Sunday, March 28th. 

 It burst just after crossing our zenith. Its light effect was 

 brilliant, but considerably marred by bright moonlight. Mr. 

 Denning, of Bristol, the great authority on meteors, described 

 the phenomenon at length in Nature of April 8th, and said it 

 must have been a fine sight in the Channel Islands. The 

 body, he wrote, described a path from Vire in France to a 

 spot sixty miles south of the Eddy stone, passing directly over 

 Jersey on the way. 



April, similarly to March, was cold and dry with much 

 northerly wind. Most of the rain fell in the first week which 

 was also exceedingly gloomy. The 3rd, 5th (Easter Monday) 

 and 6th were sunless, and Easter Sunday itself was practically 

 without sunshine. With the advent of May we entered upon 

 a couple of months of remarkably unstable temperature with, 

 on the wdiole, continued deficient rainfall. Of May I find this 

 observation recorded : " A month of unusuallv variable tern- 



