57 
374 miles. The rainfall, only 0.64 in., was the smallest amount 
recorded for March since 1857, it was .887 deficient. The total 
fall for the three months, January to March, was only 2.63 in., 
being two inches below the average, and the least recorded since 
1858. The first eighteen days of April were overcast and cloudy, 
with a mean temperature of 45.7, followed by a very fine week, 
averaging the unusually high temperature of 57.0, the thermometer 
registering 74.5 on the 21st. Mr. Glaisher states that this month 
was the warmest April since 1860, and that only five instances of 
so high a temperature has been recorded at Greenwich during the 
last 100 years. A strong SAT. gale was recorded on the 2nd and 
3rd, the daily velocity of the wind being 421 and 330 miles, and 
’the barometer fell from 30 inches on the 1st to 29.232 on the 3rd. 
The barometric pressure again decreased to 29.242 on 13th, fol- 
lowed by a N.N.W . gale on the 14th, when the velocity of the 
wind was 301 miles. Rain fell on only nine days, and 
was 3-10ths below the average. From the 1st to the 20th of May 
the weather was very cold, the mean temperature being only 
44.7, the sky generally overcast, winds light from N. and XAV. ; 
the maximum temperature was only 57.0 on the 6th. From the 
21st of May to the 11th of June, the days were much warmer, 
with a mean temperature of 57.2 for the remaining days of May, 
and 62.0 for the first eleven days of June. A thunder storm 
occurred on May the 24th ; and the rainfall was again deficient by 
8-10ths of an inch. The chief barometric variation was a fall from 
30.240 on the 20th of May, to 29.476 on the 23rd, followed by a 
rise to thirty' inches on the 26th. On the 11th of June the wind 
veered to X., and ten cold days with strong X. winds ensued ; the 
maximum temperature on the 12th was only 58.0, and the mean of 
the ten days 51.7. The wind changed to S. on the 22nd, and 
the remaining days were milder, but cloudy and showery, and 
several slight thunder storms were recorded. The rainfall was 
1-1 0th above the average. Considerable variation in the day tem- 
peratures was recorded during July, the thermometer, which only 
registered 69.0 on the 1st, rose to 85.0 on the 2nd ; on the 7th the 
maximum was only 69.0, but on the 9th it reached 88.0 ; on the 
16th, 17th, and 18th, it was only 70.2, 71.5, and 70.0 ; but on the 
20th it again reached 86.5. Slight oscillation was recorded in the 
barometric pressure during June and July, the readings were 
