50W 
Septembeu. 
]*.ntercd with wet and squally weather, which continued to the Gth, 
after which anticyclonic conditions prevailed, with light easterly 
breezes and calms. Pressure began to give way on the 11th, and 
the 12th and 13th were very wet. The 14th and 15th were finer, 
t icn variable to the 19th, after which heavy rains to the 22nd. 
bail- to the 28th, but much rain on the 29th and 30th. 
OCTOBEIl. 
Ihis montli has the reputation of being the wettest October for 
seventeen years past; in fact, with but two or three exceptions. 
It was the wettest October ever known. A few fine and warm days 
at the beginning of the month (G8 degrees on the 1st) were 
ollowed by a terrific thunderstorm on the niglit of the 8th, when 
1-04 of ram fell, notwithstanding that the barometer stood at 30T4 
and the wind east. The weather from the 11th to the end of the 
month was of the most dismal character, with rain almost daily, 
and on many occasions it rained witliout intermission the entire 
day. 1 -30 fell on the 21st, and 1 -03 on the 24th, on which day a 
heavy southerly gale prevailed. On the 27th, at 2 p.m. rain 
commenced falling heavily, and continued without an hour’s 
abatement for about thirty-six hours, being accompanied by a 
destructive gale from the east causing many shipwrecks and much 
damage to property. P71 of rain fell in the thirty-six hours, of 
which 1-05 fell on the 28th. The barometer was highest on 
the 5th (30-54), and lowest on the 22nd (29-10). The total 
rainfall of the month was 6-50, or more than double the average, 
or this, a usually wet month. A bright aurora was seen on the 
evening of the 2nd. 
XoVEMBEa 
A mil, I, but very n et unil stormy month, nitli frequent disastrous 
gales Although tlie rainfall for the month iras not half that of 
Oetober (the total being 2-94), rain fell on no less than tn-enty-siic 
,lays. I ho fiercest gales urere on the 8th and 14th. the former 
iroTu the south-west, the tatter from tlie e,ast. Slight frests occurred 
on tho nights of the 12th, I8th, 28th, and 29th, but in no ease did 
the thermometer Ml below 29 ilegrees. A briUMit crimson aurora 
