XXIY. 
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS TAKEN AT WANSFORD 
HOUSE, WATFORD, DURING THE YEAR 1884. 
By John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.Met.Soc. 
Bead at Watford , 24 th March , 1885. 
Longitude of station, 0° 23' 40" W. ; Latitude, 51° 39' 45" N. 
Ground-level at thermometer-stand and rain-gauge 223 feet, and 
cistern of barometer 234 feet above Ordnance Datum. 
No alteration having been made in any respect in 1884, for 
further particulars as to the station, and for information with regard 
to the instruments used and the method of observation, the report 
for 1883 may be referred to. The monthly means of the daily 
observations in 1884, and other results, are given in the tables (pp. 
220, 221), and from these (for Dec. 1883 from the previous report) 
the following summary for the different seasons is deduced, results 
for Greenwich Observatory being added for comparison as usual: 
Means foe the Seasons eeom Dec. 1883 to Nov. 1884, at Watfokd. 
Seasons, 
1883-84. 
Pressure. 
Temperature. 
Tension 
of 
Vapour. 
Humi¬ 
Rainfall. 
Cloud 
0-10. 
Mean. 
Daily- 
Range. 
dity. 
Total. 
Days. 
ins. 
O 
O 
in. 
% 
ins. 
Winter . 
30-064 
41*3 
9-0 
•227 
89 
5 *4i 
47 
7’3 
Spring . 
29-924 
47’4 
IT'S 
•251 
75 
3‘95 
33 
6-9 
Summer. 
29-997 
62*3 
19-7 
•426 
73 
5-98 
35 
6'o 
Autumn..... 
30-099 
49-6 
I4‘3 
•302 
84 
4-86 
36 
6-i 
The same at Geeenwich. 
Seasons, 
1883-84. 
Pressure. 
Temperature. 
Tension 
of 
Vapour. 
Humi¬ 
Rainfall. 
Cloud 
0-10. 
Mean. 
Daily 
Range. 
dity. 
Total. 
Days. 
ins. 
0 
O 
in. 
% 
ins. 
Winter .... 
3°'°59 
42-1 
9-2 
•232 
86 
4-10 
43 
77 
Spring . 
29-918 
48*0 
18-1 
•256 
77 
3 "44 
36 
6-6 
Summer. 
29-991 
62-2 
22*7 
•406 
73 
4-68 
32 
6-i 
Autumn..... 
30-078 
50*2 
I4‘5 
•308 
83 
4-12 
36 
6-4 
The year 1884 is the first since 1874 in which the rainfall has 
not been excessive, and in this most important respect it therefore 
presents a favourable contrast to any of the previous nine years. 
