510 
appeared on the evening of the 17th. The barometer fluctuated 
much, and was highest on the 6th (30T0) and lowest on the 
9th (29T2). 
December. 
Slight snow on the 2nd, followed by rain ; squally to the 7th. 
The transit of Venus on the Gth was, with the excei:)tion of the 
first fifteen minutes after external contact, obscured at Norwich by 
a heavy cloud-bank. The wind was easterly, and blew up dense 
masses of cloud and fog. Slight snow fell again on the 7th but 
was followed by rain, which fell in torrents from the north-east, 0-95 
being recorded for that day. Nearly all parts of England were visited 
with a great snowstorm, and for some days unusually severe 
weather prevailed; but in Norfolk there was little or no snow, 
although some rime frosts occurred on the nights of the 9th, lOtli, 
11th, and 12th. Eight degrees of frost were registered on the last- 
named night. Dense fogs prevailed more or less till Christmas. 
The 25th was a day of incessant rain (0’57 fell), and the weather 
was mild, wet, and unseasonable to the close of the year. Tlie 
thermometer stood at 55 degrees on the 28th, and 54 degrees on the 
29th. Eain fell on seventeen days, the total fall for the moutli 
being 3 ‘87. 
The total rainfall for 1882 was 34’97, which is the largest amount 
registered in one year since 1860, and is about 8 inches above the 
average for the past twenty-four years. 
