METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL. 
381 
REMARKS. 
Tenth Month. l6. Fine morning ; wet p. m. liglitningin the 
evening. 17. Sliowery. 18. Fine a. m. shower p. m. 
19. Hoar frost ; fair d.iy after misty morning. 20. Cloudy 
a. m. much wind at E. 22. About half past 7, p. m. a bright 
1 blue meteor appeared in the N. and, passing to westward with a 
steady and rather slow motion, became extinct. There were 
traces of cirrostratus clouds, which increased afterward. 
23. Maximum of temperature at 9 a. m. Cloudy, with a 
breeze. 24. Overcast. 25. Cloudy a. m. clear p. m. During 
I the twilight there was an abundance of red haze, first in the 
E. horizon, over clouds in that quarter, then at a considerable 
< elevation in the W. It ended more clear and orange-coloured. 
2t». Cloudy at iirervaU. 27. a. m. windy. 28. Hoar frost, 
'which being examined, was found to consist, not of spiculac 
. attached to the herbage, but of the drops of dew, frozen clear 
.and solid. 29. Hoarfrost; cumnlostrati followed by nimbi. 
tOne of the latter approaching from the E. at 4 p. m. exhibited 
.a double rainbow, on a ground of purple. 30. Spicular hoar 
Ifrost ; very misty; clear at noon : cirrostratus and a little rain, 
Ip. m. wet and stormy night. 31. Windy a. m. cirrus with cu- 
imulus : a shower about 4, with a hue bow. 
Eleventh Alonlh. 1. Hoar frost. 2. Granular hoar frost: 
wery clear sun-rise : clouds at noon : rain p. m. very windy 
might. 3. Sunshine, a. m. wind N. N. W. a shower p. m. 
t6. Calm clear weather, with hoar frost, these three days, the 
iwind now rising. 7- Small rain at intervals : a solar halo of 
large diameter, p. m. 8. Fair a. m. but before 4, dark nimbi 
and rain beginning. Being on the south side of London, I was 
rsnrprised with a tlash of lightning and a sharp peal of thun- 
der : about half past O', a glimpse of a meteor passing to the 
IW, It was said to lighten after this time. 8. 9. Windy. 
1 1. Stormy night. 12. Windy ; cloudy p. m. wet. 13. Hoar 
frost. 14. The same, with a crystallized rime on the shrubs. 
RESULTS. 
'Winds Tiuiahle : the easterly prevailed in the former, the westerly is 
the laltiT pait. 
Barometer : greatest heieht 80-;'>4 in. ; least S8'r4 iu, 
Mean of the petic'd C9 inches. 
Tlicniiometer : ^rr.atest heieht .ss” ; least 
Jlcaii of the period, -I.: 41*’. 
Evap' l atioiJ, t'-i S in. 
ToTTExnvM, 
.Vlcvendi .yrnth, llih, liJl,i. 
Ram ‘."14 in. 
I.. HOM Ann. 
