Obseevations, June 10 — 16. 1843. 
135 
h. 
0. Scud : scud : large sheet of cirrous-fringed cloud rising from W. and falling in rain ; a few drops here. 
2. Scud : cumuli and nimbi ; a shower approaching. l h 25 m a heavy shower of rain, then of hail, followed 
by lightning and thunder ; loud peals distant about 1 mile at an altitude of 45°. 
4. Scud and cumuli. 
6. Id. to SE. : cirro-cumulous scud -t— masses of cirro-cumuli and cirrous clouds. 
8. Scud ; light rain. 
10. Cirrous scud. 
18. Scud. 
20. Id. 
22. Id. 
0. Id. 
2. Id. 
4. Id. 
6. Id. 
8. Id. ; a few drops of rain. 
10. Id. 
18. Id. ; drizzle. 
20. Id. 
22. Id. 
0. Id. -i— woolly and mottled cirri. 
2. Id. 
4. Id. 
6. Id. ; light mist. 
8. Id. 
10. Id. 
18. Thin low floating scud ; mist. 
20. Strings of scud ; cirro-strati to S. 
22. Patches of scud moving quickly and becoming dispersed ; cirri. 
0. Patches of scud masses of woolly cirri and cirro-cumuli to S. and W. 
2. Masses of scud near horizon. 
4. Id. 
6. Id. 
8. Id. 
10. Homogeneous scud. 
18. Scud on E. and S. horizon. 
20. Id. 
22. Clear. 
0. Id. ; a few small patches of scud to S. 
2. Id. ; id. 
4. One or two specks of scud to SE. and S. 
6. Not a speck of cloud to be seen. 
8. Cirrous haze and cirro-strati forming to NE. 
10. Woolly cirri, cirro-cumuli, cirro-strati, and cirrous haze to N. and NE. all tinged with red. 
18. Cirrous haze and long feathers of woolly cirri pointing from NE., linear cirri pointing from E., moving slowly. Beautiful solar halo, incomplete 
near the horizon, with parhelia ; the parhelia are elongated from the sun ; at the vertex of the arch there is also a large bright mass 3° or 4° broad; 
the halo has a reddish-brown colour, and the parhelia are like suns seen through a thick haze. 18 h i m - The parhelia to the south and at the 
vertex of the halo are in a thiekish woolly cirrus, the parhelion to the north is in a homogeneous mass of haze or compact linear cirri. 
20. Cirrous haze and linear cirri— no halo. 
22. Id. id. Distinct solar halo ; brightest and of a brownish-red colour at the east and 
west points, less distinct and white at the north and south points. 
0. As before. The halo still visible but faint. 
2. Mottled and woolly cirri to SW. lying WNW. to ESE. 
