The Sun.
London, England, 1821-07-11 00:00:00

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS

RESULTS of a METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, for
June, 1821, kept at the OBSERVATORY, GOSPORT.
BAROMETER. 1 Highest 31:4.34 in. June 18, Wd. N.E.
Lowest 29.44---Ditto 8, Do. W.
Range of the Mercury ......... 0.10.

Inches.
Mean Barometric pressure for the month - - 29.988
for the lunar period, ending the 29th - 29.989
for 15 days, with the Moon in N. Declination 29.923
for 15 days, with the Moon in S. Declination 30.056
Spaces described by le oscillations of the mercury 3.800
Greatest variation in 24 hours - - . 0.520
Number of Changes, caused by the variations in the 21
weight of the atmospheric column - N. •
flight* 74u ',km. 4, 30, Wd.
THERMOMETER. t'
Lowest, 42—Do. 10,—Ditto
Range - . - 32
Mean temperature of the air . - 58.25
Mean ditto, for 31 days, with the Sun in Gemini 55.09
Mean temperature of spring water, at 8, A. m. 51.19
Greatest variation in 21 hours . - - 24.00
DE Luc's WHALEBONE HiVOHOHETEU.
Degrees.
Greatest humidity, of the air 71 in the evening of Ist.
Greatest dryness of ditto - 34 in afternoon of 29th.
Range of the Index - 37
Mean at 2, P.M. . - 43.4
Mean at 8, A.M. . - 53.8
Mean at 8, P.M. - - . 50.2
Mean ,of three observations each day, at
40.1
2, and '8 O'clock - -
Evaporation for the month - 3.05 inches
Rain, hail,, sleet, and snow r 0.28 inch
Prevailing Winds—N.E.

A.StriVIMARY OF Tin WEATInii.--A clear sky, 1 -;
with various modifications of cloud, 15 ; an overcast sky,
without rain, 10 ; rain and bail, 4.—Total 30 days.
A scale of the prevailing winds.
N. N.E. E. S.E. S. S.W. W. N.W., Days.
5 14 0 2 0 2 .5 2
This month has been cold and very dry, with such at conti-
nuance of brisk N. E. winds, as has not occurred these seven
years past, having prevailed fourteen days from that point, and
five from the N. With these dry currents, the mercurial co-
lumn of:the .barometer, from the 11th to the closeof the month,
ranged between 30-09 and 29,34 inches ; and the index of the
hygrometer between 35 deg. -and 55 deg. In the ffirst week of
' .the month a robin was observed to sing strong and perfect in
the mornings and evenings, which indicated the constitution of
the air to be more like the beginning of spring than summer.
On the lath, a shower of snow is said to have fallen at Stole,
about three miles to the northward of Chichester; and in the
day of the 10th, several showers of hail fell, succeeded in the
night by a slight hoar-frost in this neighbourhood.
The maximum temperature of air this month is only 74 deg.
the same as it was on the 26th of April last,.; so that we are still
2 deg. short of summer heat. The average -temperature of the
days and nights is a little under that of the cold and wet June
in 18'16; and more than 2 deg. below the mean .of June for the
last six years, notwithstanding the- greater number of -fine
sunny days. The temperature of aping-water fluctuated un-
usually ; and scarcely any dew Fell :m :th nights. From these
-untoward circumstances, vegetation, and the ripening .of the
fruit were retarded, and the corn kept backward in its growth ;
but it has now :a promising appearance..
The attnosphene and meteoric pberemena that have come
within, our observation this month, are six parhelia, four solar
halos, ene small meteor, and one strong gale of wind from the
N.J.