mr. a. w. preston’s meteorological notes. 
103 
Year. 
The general meteorological conditions of 1889 were, as a whole, 
more in agreement with the average than those of the previous 
two years, although the temperature still showed signs of keeping 
below rather than above the usual standard. The weather was 
most perfect in May and June, but at the commencement of July 
it completely broke down, and there was but little more continued 
fineness until late in the autumn. The rainfall, as recorded, may 
perhaps hardly be said to fairly represent the county of Norfolk, 
as the tremendous fall of .Inly 13th helped largely to swell the 
total, and at most stations in the county the year’s fall was but 
little in excess of the average. Altogether the recollections of last 
year’s weather are more agreeable than those of 1888, and it is 
to be hoped that the long-continued spell of cold, which has held 
sway more or less for the last live years, at length bids fair to give 
way to more genial conditions. 
N.13. — The instruments from which the foregoing observations are taken 
consist of standard maximum and minimum thermometers, and dry and 
wet bulb thermometers by Negretti and Zambra, mounted in a Royal 
Meteorological Society’s screen, in a freely exposed situation, and an aneroid 
barometer. All the above instruments have been verified at Kew Observatory. 
The rainfall is measured by a Symons’ Snowdon rain-gauge, and the observa- 
tions of the direction of the wind are, for the most part, taken from the 
vane on the spire of Norwich Cathedral. 
