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LTEUT.-COLONEL SYKES’S DISCUSSION OF METEOROLOGICAL 
Sattarah. — Range of Thermometer. 
At Sattarah, the results of four years’ observations by Dr. Murray, from 1844 to 
1847 inclusive, are as follows : — 
Minimum 
temperature. 
Maximum 
temperature. 
Maximum 
daily range. 
Maximum 
monthly range. 
January 
53-0 
8§-0 
23-0 
si-o 
February 
50-5 
90-0 
26-0 
33-0 
March 
62-0 
100-0 
32-0 
38-5 
April 
64-0 
102-0 
31-5 
36-5 
May 
70-0 
103-0 
26-0 
29-5 
June 
69-0 
93-0 
22-0 
22-0 
July 
60-0 
91-0 
7-5 
11-0 
August 
60-0 
80-0 
10-0 
10-0 
September 
64-0 
83-0 
16-0 
19-0 
October 
63-0 
93-0 
21-0 
30-0 
November 
58-0 
85-0 
21-0 
25-0 
December 
57-0 
86-0 
25-0 
27-0 
Year 
50-5 
103-0 
32-0 
38-5 
The minima and maxima in temperature represent the highest and lowest state of 
the thermometer ever indicated in January in four years, and the same for the other 
months ; and the maxima and minima are not necessarily in the same year. The 
ranges represent the greatest and least in any particular day or month. 
The maximum temperature, at 2320 feet, exceeded that recorded in Bombay, and 
the daily and monthly range were greater, but considerably less than at Mahabu- 
leshwur at 4500 feet. In four years at Sattarah the extreme range of the thermo- 
meter was 52° 5, from 50°'5 to 103°’0, while at Mahabuleshwur in fifteen years the 
range was only 47°‘0. The minimum temperature does not appear to have been below 
50°'5, while I have observed it about the latitude of Sattarah, and at 400 feet lower 
level, at 40°'5 in January; and at 3123 feet in May I had it rise, at 3^ p.m,, to 105°. 
The following is extracted from a synopsis of fifteen years’ observations at Maha- 
buleshwur, from January 1829 to December 1843, from observations successively 
taken by Doctors Walker, Morehead and Murray : — 
Extreme 
daily range. 
Extreme 
monthly 
range. 
Extreme 
depression 
at night, 
thermometer 
exposed. 
Months. 
Maximum 
temperature. 
Minimum 
temperature. 
Range in 
fifteen years. 
O 
O 
O 
O 
O 
O 
21-0 
30-5 
30-0 
January 
79*5 
45-0 
34-5 
23-8 
32-1 
31-5 
February 
85-5 
46-0 
39-5 
23-5 
38-0 
33-0 
March 
89-0 
49-5 
40-5 
22-0 
34-5 
36-5 
April 
92-0 
56-0 
36-0 
22-0 
32-0 
30-2 
May 
90-0 
57-3 
32-7 
18-5 
25-5 
June 
84-0 
53-0 
31-0 
12-7 
18-5 
Julv 
73-8 
51-5 . 
22-3 
11-1 
13-0 
August 
70-8 
53-0 
17*8 
14-0 
17-0 
September 
77-0 
56 0 
21-0 
17-5 
23-0 
34-1 
October 
78-5 
54-0 
24-5 
16-5 
23-0 
29-5 
November 
75-0 
51-5 
23-5 
19*0 
27-5 
27-5 
December 
76-0 
48-5 
28-5 
23-8 
38-0 
27’5 
Year 
92-0 
45-0 
47-0 
