The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-01-08 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.

!
1

Pelmet from a very latereetiog Ifeteseeleeleal Janteal
for December, 1111, kepi at the Observatory of the Acade-
me (Da Ilmemep%-flooperi to«
" We have Ps nursed the easel dressy and the mem dna..
terns mouth that appears, to one limowledev, is the Ilimeo-
iv/Wind history of this eonatry. The rains sheds. tear-
pasture, both of the air sad ye*: water, stmuspberiesi
electricity, hightailing, sod shoulder, have ell rneinvoil te very
considerable enema and for the noel part nomirelhitod with.
in the *Web lakes sad she present. if Ile immembeat
marl are iiimeionhed beyond mesperiarn.
" Rake has fallow hem mime se less, every &chemist om
the fib, 11th, 11th, sad 111th, the aggregate warsawasi to
between 7 mad S jambes in depth! that is, 1-SS be* mesa
shoe we horn regisseard is may former onmilitillpmllyid and
alemet amble the qoaatity of whet we consider ad • wit
meth in this barite*. So eoykies was its &Nagano She
dem and eights of the 14th sad Urn, that it semelilled to
141 incise.
K The impetuous winds are said to have Sere em 0111.1141
the typing of the East than the sturdy gales of linctlked-
The equalle or sesta at intervals were certaisly se pewertel
u the hurricane we experienced lore on the deb sad btli
of illereb, 11111, hot their extreme violence was eel, therni-
ethery.
"The tellewieg is the ameiber of herd gales. or dye na
which they have prernoled Shirr mood, vie. foot from 11X.
ten from S.W. mod two from she Writ.
" Is our own neighbourhood much damage lies bees doee
to leaded property by the united effnrto of the MO oh*
and hooey falls of rota; but the ships in Portman& bar.'
hoer sad at Spithead have braced the tempests to seem..
Neatly the whole of Souther. Comapts esti SI Noah
were, dories some dap, inuodsted; and the Corti
srvoird the neighbourhood slightly injured; besides the over-
flowiagof the carriage mode, lee grounds, and wham by
the aellettioa of rale water from the hills, mod boas lyias
above the general shwa It should, however, be observes'
that mese of the tides is Portsmouth harbour rose u high
by Woe hither', se in the sight of the 4th of Nerd, 111111.
"The mese temperature of the air yen feel dm, ik•
puled b sin degrees mid • half higher than ilk ewe at
Member for many years past, see equal u Goose of our
int outs, auths, which is is greet eseemere moillabby
the priest forward state of variative : mpg . bee the she,.
'ammeter Is the epee air, is a **ethers ewe; ease
as-
weeded to the freesias point wilily four degrees. The
nudes temperature for the Mk, h, spd Nib, sr_
awed is Ilse sights. The mien lemperaiore of lootoi
wiser is 5! des. 57 Oil, that It, five degrees ands Isalltheker
Ikea the sear for December, 1920. This also is • pt.irtf
of the sacormsecnily high temperature of. the grnmod pt this
IMMO of the year.
" At eleven,'.*. es Christmas eve, ;he sperm', is our
barometeri sod in several other 'mod portable barometers in
the oeiglibeurbood, receded to 29-10 itichee, which is nue&
loathe lower than it fell ileriee the bitnksa• Wore.edtud'd
to, sod lower the. we fin saw ii before. The heads «f sit
the wheel barometers slum we bad seem to at the same lion.
wire far oat of or below the range of their. sales. l'he
magnetic needle ateo was singularly *retied ea time of It.
meet money days, baring deviated from its dbureal
state between three degrees and foot Segues tee Ards the
north.

"Should the Nader be rarioas to inquire how ape.
spherical electricity has prevailed he eyes* as above Stated,
we beg to sey, that it wee awertained by repeated rapers.
meats with two benlated pith balls suspeaded Gs*riseof Healey's lielvereal Diechs.gre, so which I less wine was
attached that aced as a conductor of the elearie Said, which
leased censidessielikeweeergiog sod. dimegies seeliem of
these balls.
" Of the prevalent* of vivid lighdelag we had melee de-
swestratiose se the Nth, 19th, ?Otti, sod 27th. :hick
was twice accompanied by ihuader so* I. accusal der via
frequent emerreace at this a aeon we seed arty refer to she
fella of the isminielly kWh temperate', of the ground; mod
the wefts electric, sad violently agitated yid, which bad adieu-
lleleli a turbid aspect.
"'Me atmospheric sad meteoric ph/twenties that have
ease within ear observation this mouth ario..l pa/belief.,
pereeeleem, ft solar and I loner helm, 47 inirteers, one of
which was els or seers iecbee I.
.apparent atoessetes to she
miesiee of the 11U, sic perfect Pastimes, lighten,. es Are
different Jays, thunder on two."