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On the 30th, between 5 and 7 p.ra., two disastrous thunderstorms 
passed over Norwich, much damage being done by the electric fluid, 
both to life and property. The barometer was highest on the 
13th (30.29), and lowest on the 15th (29.68). The thermometer 
highest on the 29th and 30th (82 degrees), and lowest on the 17th 
(43 degrees), the moan temperature being 59.2. The prevailing 
current was easterly. Eain fell on fourteen da}'s ; the heaviest fall 
being 0.G3 in. on the 15th, and the total for the month was 2.88 in. 
July. 
The fine and hot weather continued up to the 12 th inst., the heat 
being very oppressive on the first throe days, 79, 81, and 81 degrees 
respectively being recorded. On the 13th cold, wet, and glomuy 
weather, similar to that so frequently experienced in the summers 
of recent years, set in, and continued to the end of the month. 
During this period there were only three days on whicli rain did 
not fall, and temperature did not once exceed 69 degree.^. There 
was much thunder at times. The barometer attained 30 09 on 
1st and 26th, and fell to 29.50 on the 21st. The thermometer 
registered 81 degrees on the 2nd and 3rd, and 45 degrees on the 
night of the 20th ; and the mean temperature Wixs 60.4. Westerly 
and north-westerly winds predominated. There were twenty-one 
days on which rain fell, the heaviest flill (0.35 in.) on the 20th and 
the month’s total, 2.39 in. • 
August. 
Up to the 11th, although not so cold and wet as during the last 
three weeks of July, the weather still continued somewhat unsettled, 
but on this day a fine, sunny, and dry period, such as had not 
been known in August for many years, set in, and continued to 
the end of the mouth. During this period, but a quarter of an 
inch of rain fell ; the sun shone from a nearly cloudless sky for 
many days together, and the harvest, which, in the neighbourhood 
of Norwich, was not commenced until the 12th, was completed 
by the end of the month. The thermometer was above 70 degrees 
every day from the 18th to the 31st, with the exception of the 
29th, Avhen it attained 69 degrees. Not a single thunderstorm 
occurred throughout the month. The barometer was highest on 
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