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The Weather o/l892. 
The telegrams were sent daily between 3.30 P.M. and 4 p.m. on 
each week-day for about five weeks. The issue commenced over 
the Southern districts of England on June 13, and ended on July 
16 ; but commenced and ended about a fortnight later in the more 
western and northern parts of the country. 
In addition to the recipients named in the list, telegrams were 
sent to six other gentlemen at their own cost. 
Several of the recipients speak very favourably of the forecasts. 
THE WEATHER OF 1892. 1 
First Quarter. — The weather in January was dry, and for the 
most part very cold, with frequent N.E. and N.W. winds, and 
snow, till the 20th ; it was mild with strong S.W. wind at the end 
of the month. The temperature of the air was below the average 
on nearly every day till the 21st, with severe frost on several nights ; 
from the 22nd, with the exception of two days, the mean tempera- 
ture was above the average. The atmospheric pressure, saving on 
the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, was low, particularly so on the 6th, 7th, 8th, 
and 9th, and the 14th, 15th, and 16th days ; from the 23rd the 
readings of the barometer were above the average. The fall of rain 
was less than the average ; snow fell frequently between the 6th and 
the 20th. 
The weather in February was dry, dull, and moderately warm 
till the 11th ; then cold, being exceptionally severe from the 16th to 
the 20th ; afterwards warm for a few days, and cold at the end of the 
month. The temperature of the air till the 11th was a little above 
the average ; a cold period set in on the 12th, and was particularly 
severe on the 16tli, 17th, 18th, and 19th days, when the deci’eases 
of their mean temperatures below their averages were as large as 
10 o, 7, 14°'3, ll°-2, and 11 0, 3 respectively. On the morning of the 
17th the temperature was 16° at Blackheath, and a very low tem- 
perature was general, and in many cases less than 16°. 
There is no doubt that at numerous places in the N. the tem- 
perature was below zero ; whilst in the S. the lowest in the month 
at Guernsey was 28 0- l, at Ventnor 22 0- 6 and at Truro, Torquay, 
Osborne, and Barnstaple it was about 21°. At the Royal Obser- 
vatory, Greenwich, the lowest reading was 18°\8. The following 
are the instances back to the year 1841 of minima below 19° in 
February : — 
1889 it was 18° 9 
1888 „ 18°-4 
1865 „ 15°-5 
1855 it was 11°T 
1847 „ 10°-2 
1845 it was 7°'7 
1811 „ 12°-4 
The atmospheric pressure was above the average from the 9th to 
the 14th and on the 26th and 27th, and below on all other days, and 
1 Abstracted from the particulars supplied to the Registrar-General by 
James Glaisher, Esq., F.R.S., &c. 
