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METEOKOLOGICAL NOTES, 1882. 
Ey a. W . Phe.sto\. 
Read 2 ’jtli February, 1883 . 
IfiK following brief notes on the weather of 1882, together with 
the dates of some of the vernal imlications of the remarkably early 
spring of that year (so far as a resident in so large a city as Norwich 
couhl observe), are compiled from personal observation. No regular 
harometncal or thermometrieal readings having been taken, they arc 
necos.sarily very incomplete, and this remark will also apply to the 
lainfall (except lor the month of December, when the readin-s were 
regularly taken from a Symons 5-inch rain-gauge). It is m°uch to 
0 regretted that the admirable papers contributed to this Society 
by Mr. Quinton, registrar of the Norwich Meteorological Society 
have been discontinued, as they formed a valuable addition to the 
Irnnsactions,’ the readings being taken from first-class instruments 
and the notes supplied by an experienced meteorologist. It is of 
course a difficult matter for an amateur, whose time is much 
occupied, to give such an amount of attention to meteorolocrical 
occurrences as would be required to furnish a proper and complete 
record, but the accompanying notes may perhaps imperfectly give 
some idea of the general character of the weather during the past year. 
Jaxuauv. 
following the finest and warmest November that has occurred 
for many years, and a mild and stormy December, the j^ear 1882 
entered with dull and squally weather and much rain. Storms'^ 
predicted from America, took place on the 2 nd and 6 th with heavy 
ram and gales from the west. These were followed by a hri^U 
and warm period to the 13th, when an unusual and protracted hlh 
barometrical pressure produced dull, dry, and foggy weather to the 
*-4th. On the 18th the barometer stood at the extraordinary 
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