MKTEOHOr.OGIC.VL JOL’RXjIL. 
13'J 
REMARKS. 
Notes Seventh Mo. 2'A. ContiruecI lie.ivy rain for above twr> 
hours p.m. with distant iliiincler. 24. A tiiunder shower about 
three p. nt. Kauibow. 25. Windy, cloudy. Rainbow, broad 
diverging shadows on a coloured twilight, with cirrostiaius and 
haze to the S. 2f). Fair a. m. At noon began .a steady rain, 
with distatit tliunder. In the evening, several distinct nimbi, in 
particular, a well-formed one in the N. E. 27. a. m. Cumu- 
iostrptus : p. m. rain, with distant thunder : evening distant 
nimbi, and a rainbow : tnucli colour, with broad shadows, in 
the twilight. 28. Much dew : cumulus with cirrus At sunset, 
a calm air, with large plumose cirri, highly coloured. 2p. A 
clear day, the wind passed from S. to E : twilight brilliant, 
with dew : tlie new moon shewL-d a well-defined disc at Sh. 
30m. p. m. 30. Cumulus, wi.h cirrus passing to the inferior 
modifications. In the evening, on theS. horizon, cumulus, 
■mixed with cirrostr.itus and haze, the twilight of a pink 
colour. It lightened frequently before ten at night, very far in 
the S. E with the wind S. 
.Eighth Mo. 1. Rain at .5 a. m succeeded by a close canopy 
of cumulostratus. At sun.set, cirrus with cirrocnmulus ; twilight 
opake, somew’hat orange coloured. 2 Much the same pheno- 
mena as yesterday. 3. Some drizzling showers with wind a. m. 
sunset very dark, the sky being full of low broken cumuli -. 
night windy. 4. a. m. Windy ; with cumulus, which, p. m. 
inosculated with cirrostratus above it. 5. Rain early, the wind 
S, In the evening (after .several showers) clouds in various 
modifications, the wind W. with lightning to the S. (5. Much 
-wind at N. W. with cumulus ; a shower p. m. 8. Cl»-'e 
cumulostratus most of the day. R.ain, evening. 9. Wind 
brisk at N. N. m. At noon, tlic upper clouds were per- 
ceived not to move with this wind, and at evening it fell calm : 
lliere were now in the sky rose-coloured cirri, in stri{vcs, from 
'S. E. to N. W. with cirrostratus and cumulostmtus in a lower 
region : twilight orange, surmounted with rose colour. ) 1. A 
stratus after sunset, with cirrostratus remaining above. Small 
scintillant meteors now appeared, failing almost directly down, 
and seeming to originate very low in the atmosphere. 13. Cirrus 
and cirrocnmulus abounded. There was a slight show'er 
about noon. 14. Overcast, a little rain after sunset. lO. The 
■maximum of the temp, for 24 hours past occurred at 9 a. m. 
1“. Overcast : windy. 
RESULTS. 
Prevailing M inds westerly. 
Daronicter ; greatest observed elevation, in. ; least co..jo in. 
Mean of llie period v9'799 inches. 
Thcrinoineifr ; greatest lieiglit 85t® ; least 47 ®j 
Mean of the perioil, (5 3'88“. 
£vap. ration, 3*42 in. Rain fCl in. 
L. HOWARD. 
Tf.TTENnAM, 
I5th, Eighth Mtnth, 1813. ' 
