THE WIND-EUSH AT YOEK, 
March 8th, 1890. 
On this date there was a severe thunderstorm, which, soon 
after two o’clock, stretched, in a line 50 miles long, from the 
N.W. of York to near Huddersfield, and moved slowly in a 
S.S.E. direction, so that it was over Leicestershire at five p.m. 
Heavy falls of soft hail occurred at York, Tadcaster, and 
elsewhere. The Eev. W. Clement Ley, of Ashby Larva, near 
Lutterworth, Leicestershire, noted considerable resemblance to 
the celebrated Eurydice ” Squall, of March 24th, 1878, 
especially in a strange hacking of the cirrus clouds, towards the 
S.W., just before the storm hurst over him. 
About 2-45, whilst the storm was still raging, a so-called 
‘‘whirlwind” swept along a four mile track, just south of York, 
doing damage to one or two hundred objects. Details of it* 
were read before, and are now published by, the Eoyal 
Meteorological Society, to whom we are indebted for the use of 
the accompanying plate, reduced from the six-inch ordnance 
map,t and for figures 1 to 5. 
The map shows that the violent wind began S.S.W. from 
York, at a distance of three miles, and ended three miles E.S.E. 
of the Minster Chapter-House; its path was pretty straight, 
from W.S.W. to E.N.E., and measures over four miles in a 
straight line. 
The number (1) on the map lies on a small plantation to 
which no certain damage was done; at (2) is a dismantled, 
roofiess barn. The west gable was blown down, the bricks 
lying flat and little separated. Yet an oak over it had hardly 
a twig damaged. Eor some time, as the numbers show, the 
line of mischief was very narrow. No tree was much damaged 
* Several bnyp from Boothara School kindly collected observations E. of the 
Ouse, nearly all of which I was able later to verify, observino-, further. W. of 
the Ouse and Nos. 123—133. The chief observers were:—Egbert C. Morland 
(twice) and C. H. Merz (Nos. 38 to 75); F. Gr. Frver and A. Beale (79 to 110) 
and F. O. Fryer again (119—129). J, P. J. Malcolmson and L. Baker also took 
some photographs. 
t The map, and photographs of aneroidograms, will be found at the end of 
the Report. 
