Meteorological Observations. 
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Abstract of the Results of the Hourly Meteorological Observations 
taken at the Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta, 
in the month of May, 1862. 
Latitude 22° 33' 1" North. Longitude 88° 20' 34" East. 
Beet. 
Height of the Cistern of the Standard Barometer above the Sea-level, 18.11 
Daily Means, &c. of the Observations and of the Hygrometrical elements 
dependent thereon. 
t 
Mean Height of 
the Barometer 
at 32° Faht. 
Range of the Barometer 
during the day. 
Mean Dry Bulb 
Thermometer. 
Range of the Tempera¬ 
ture during the day. 
Date. 
Max. 
Min. 
Diff. 
Max. 
Min. 
Diff. 
Inches. 
Incises. 
Inches. 
Indies. 
o 
o 
o 
o 
1 
29.647 
29.740 
29.556 
0.184 
80.7 
88.5 
72.6 
15.9 
2 
.665 
.730 
.607 
.123 
84.7 
93.2 
78.4 
14.8 
3 
4 
.692 
Sunday. 
.767 
.629 
.138 
83.1 
90.4 
73.0 
17.4 
5 
.776 
.851 
.704 
.147 
83.4 
91.8 
74.0 
17.8 
6 
.822 
.919 
.750 
.169 
77.0 
83.2 
72.2 
11.0 
7 
.764 
.828 
.697 
.131 
82.2 
90.5 
74.4 
16.1 
8 
.791 
.873 
.724 
.149 
81.8 
88.4 
75.0 
13.4 
0 
.791 
.875 
.719 
.156 
85.0 
93.5 
78.6 
14.9 
10 
11 
.775 
Su?iday. 
.834 
.710 
.124 
84.5 
91.4 
79.6 
11.8 
12 
.666 
.740 
.572 
.168 
83.3 
92.4 
74.8 
17.6 
13 
.654 
.722 
.574 
.148 
86.1 
94.2 
79.7 
14.5 
14 
.705 
.766 
.643 
.123 
86.0 
93.5 
78.8 
14,7 
15 
.690 
.738 
.649 
.089 
82.8 
92.8 
78.8 
14,0 
16 
.668 
.732 
.575 
.157 
86.0 
95.4 
78.9 
16 5 
17 
18 
.640 
Sunday. 
.699 
.564 
.135 
86.6 
95.8 
79.0 
16.8 
19 
.692 
.746 
.622 
.124 
86.0 
94.8 
78.5 
16.3 
20 
.685 
.747 
.608 
.139 
83.2 
94.2 
75.6 
18.6 
21 
.686 
.770 
.626 
.144 
82.4 
89.2 
76.2 
13.0 
22 
.672 
.752 
.611 
.141 
85.8 
95.4 
77.4 
18.0 
23 
.736 
.809 
.669 
.140 
87.7 
94.4 
82.2 
12.2 
24 
25 
.749 
Sunday. 
.811 
.675 
.136 
87.4 
93.4 
82.4 
11.0 
26 
.638 
.694 
.574 
.120 
87.8 
99.9 
80.0 
19.9 
27 
.608 
.684 
.531 
.153 
89.5 
101.8 
81.0 
20.8 
28 
.567 
.628 
.483 
.145 
91.5 
103 2 
83.5 
19.7 
29 
.558 
.629 
.474 
.155 
91 6 
102.8 
84.6 
18.2 
30 
.565 
.650 
.496 
.154 
90.1 
99.8 
84.6 
15.2 
31 
.582 
.630 
.533 
.097 
90.2 
97.8 
84.8 
13.0 
The Mean height of the Barometer, 
Thermometers, are derived from the twenty-four hourly Observations made during 
the day. 
