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NOTES ON THE METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS 
Recorded at Norwich during the tear 187G. 
By JonN Quinton, Jun., Assistant-Secretary. 
Registrar to the Norwich Meteorological Society. 
January. 
The first three days of January wero showery and mild ; the 
thermometer at 9 p.m. the 3rd, registered 50.0, but early on the 
4th the wind backed to E., and at 9 a.m. the temperature was only 
39.5. A period of very cold weather ensued, which lasted until 
the 17th, the mean temperature being 30.7 ; the thermometer never 
rose above 3G.0, and on the 8th, 12th, and 16th it was below 
freezing all day. The wind was chiefly from the N. E. and E.N.E., 
a strong galo boing recorded on the 7th ; the sky was mostly over- 
cast, and several slight showers of snow and sleet were recorded. 
During the last fourteen days the winds were mostly light from tho 
S., and the temperature averaged 40.4; but considerable variation 
was recorded, for on tho night of the 19th the lowest was 43.8, 
whereas on the day of the 22nd the highest was only 37.8. Rain 
fell from 1 to 9 p.m. on the 21st, followed by snow and sleet; the 
last ten days were very calm and mostly fine, but with thick fogs in 
the mornings and evenings. Throughout January the barometric 
pressure was very unusually high, only fell below 30 in. on the 
20th and 21st; the rainfall was 0.18 in. deficient. 
February. 
The mild weather lasted during the first three days, the tem- 
perature at 9 p.m. the 3rd being 42.0 ; but the wind veered from 
S.W. to N.W. early on the 4th, and at 9 a.m. the thermometer 
stood at 35.0. This was succeeded by a very cold period until the 
1 5th ; the sky was mostly overcast, and frequent slight showers of 
snow, sleet, and rain were recorded. Strong N.W., N., and N.E. 
winds blew from the 4th to the 7th, when the daily velocity was 
278, 2G8, 335, 283 miles respectively. The mean temperature from 
the 4th to the 14th was 33.4 ; the temperature on the 11th was 
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