The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-09

sG9 S. IA H. So SO Is 81 SO 20 i
S..s5ss q i 49, AZ 70 2sss q I
So a Is 2o.SS 81 500 q 2
IT, IT,. 81 % % = 80 % 81. "a IS !
Highsst.-The temperature our several days reached
20 degrees and up wards
Lo'eet On eight days the temperature fell below A
degrees Of which it fell to 80 degrees ,r within
one d'gree OF the freezing point Of Fahrenheit
ChdH0e-on the 9th and 10th the temperature changes
q degrees in nine hours each day. the lsth de
grees in niue hours 1atb 20 degrees in seven hours
the Soth 2 degrees in eight hours and the 24th bu
degrees in twenty -four hours.
IN EQUILIBMo AND DQuILIBRlATIoN.
There were four several terms In the month, during
consecutive hours and thirty several and distinct
during which Il equihbriaed for the like time. What
which the temperature remains unchanged for term Of
seven mere consecutive hours, and equibriated when
the change does not exceed two for the Time
EARTHQUAKES.
October is shquake month, and the equibria-
lions Of temper aure recorded here indicate that earth
quakes have been numerous, but have yet been
heard from.
AURORA BoREALs
On the Sd, 9th, 14th, goth, 2lst and oath.
METEVRs
On the 18th and .sth.
LIGHTNING.
On the evening of 1st thunder storm at Cincinnati
Ohio; I'd, at A. NJ, lightning seen from Brooklyn
Heights; evening Of the 4,h lightning seen ou board
tn a ss Arctic 81 vessels to the south from
ships struck by Lightning in different docks in
the baib Of Liverpool Epgand llth, ightniog to the
$. W., W. and n. W., fom Brooklyn Heights; 1lth
severe thunder storm Portsmouth and other places
New Hamp hire, during which store in Dover
struck by lightning and injured q wat:hman in gas
lght factory was stunned, and tree on tue turnpike
read was shivered 2Sth thunder at Bristol Rhode
Island, and other places durug which the soop James
Gorham, at the wharf 1T Somerset struck by iigu
ming and sunk Goth brilliant electric display seen
on the lake from Cleveland Ohio, between and r. H.
steamer gong from Toledo to Buffalo thunder
storm in Canada the heavens Lighted up in
directions by fires caused by the lghtningn Chau'au
que county, New YORK; several barns were struck oy
lightning and consumed, horses aud cattle killed
and vessel set lire Silver Creek, the depot at
Wesifed set fire; Both, severe thunder shower ia
ward from New Haven ;tictt. Thus IL will be
that thunder storms occurred on eight days in October
SNOW.
On The ih in De Kalb county, Illinois at Nebraska
city, ard surrounding country 5th. at Milwaukee Wis
consin an inch fell at Chicago Egn aud Cairo Illinois,
three inches fell at latter place; at St. Louis Nil souri,
and great sto at Fort La ame 7th in Cattarau
gus county, New York; l1th. in otego county Few
York, two three inches TELL 18th a. Rochester in
delaware county, New York. 18th, in Oneida county
New York; 18th; IN Lexington, Greene county New
York, ten inches fell lth, little q. Troy New York.
ed; 22d, AZ st. Paul Minnesota all day; Odd foot
ie on TIE Hederbergs Albany county, New York; lit
lie at Buffalo; snow and raio at oswego Ath little in
New York city ana staten Island; fell steadily AZ Cu
ca, and sara'oga uches 'e in Sch hare county
New York and rain ut oswego; at New Haven Con-
necticut three inches fell between Cockeysvie Mary
land, and York, lennsy wanna; at Louisville Kentucky;
Nashville Tennessee Chicago illinois, several niche isl
on the mountains o. Craig county, Virginia. Burlington
and Norpfeld Vermont; Colboine Canada West and in
Montreal 25tb ten inches fell at Pulaski Oswego
ty, New York and rain at Oswege cne foot parts
'er and on various places along the line OF the Erie rail-
road; 18Th at eambnntsn Bridge New Hampshire, for
five hours at the end of October eighteen inches deep
Superior territory Snow fell thirteen day. in this
month within the field of our research.
Frost
On the 80, white frost at St. Louis, Missouri during
the frt week, osts in All ghany county, Maryland; th
a. larkersburg, Ign hburg and throughout Pttsylva
MIA Henry, Casweil ana Patrick counties Virginia; sth
charc'ton South Caroina Newbern, North Carolina
Selma Alabama interior OF Louisiana; Canton Mssi,sp
Ii; IynchbuIg and Norfolk viginia 9th, 10Th, l1th,
18th, 10th and 1oth at Norfolk, Virginia; 18th heavy
Troy New York and vicinity Of hiladephs, Pennsylv.
MIA at Detroit Michigan ice thick widow glass;
at st. Paul, Minnesota, with the mercury down to ID
deg ees 26h at Portsmouth, Virginia, ice seghh Of
an inch thick.
During the month the fan Of rain my place Of obser
walton was six and thFec-tenth inches.
On TIE GOTH It on the Hudson river as 10
seriously impede navigation
On the 9th and 10th, heavy.
THE IowET TEnIIlATuR9s MONTH OF ocTcslR FOR
sixTY-skyES YEARS.
The temperature If the Atmosphere in the month Of
October at place O. observation for the last years,
viz. from 1916 to 1885, bth inclusive by hourly obser.
,ations made night and cay has been AT and below 80
deg 1s49, slst ssdeg 1850, 3oth % deg. 1854 Goth
aS 'g 1885 26b 90 deg 1t viii he BY this brief
statement that there perio icity 10 time, all
curing between 10th aud a1st and uniformity 10 low
pess, all coming between 80 and 80 degrees.
For the 81 years preceding isio, viz. from 1889 to
1865, both inclusive the los tempe atures in Octo.
Der CURED as folows17o ?eth 81 deg Goth. 81 deg
1los aoh 90 deg: 1895, 2sth 50 deg. 1898 18th and
goth SO deg 1910 10th and I'D, SO deg oath and 10Th
y Dig 1873 2is,. 80 deg 1915, aist, 80 deg; 1917,
l7h and 2oth rs deg. 3o,n 81 ceg.; 1915 23d 80 ieg
10Th, 81 deg; 1919, 10th 81 deg 1920 10Th 81 deg
;s,h, % deg 1929, 2ath, q d,s 1883 sl.t 81 dag
1885, ed 81 deg; 10th, e deg eth 80 deg: e3th
90 deg 1887, 9th 50 deg; lith, 81 deg 10Th 80 deg
.o'h, ~ deg. 1853, s1s. 81 deg; 1889 2lst, 81
deg; 1870 2s'hi 20 deg; 9Th, "A deg; 1871, 18th,
Ss ceg; 1916 2aJ, 80 dg 2ad, u deg. THIS includ-,
MI the years thai the temperature fell Z, 33 degrees
will be seen rem this statement that 49, g, octo.
Der he coolest of any In sixty. secutive
years, and the year folio rn9 1887 the cold came
carrier than any October from 1889 10 1858 viz on
The 9th and agaia the 18th On but two other years
was the temperature low 80 degrees before the
10Th of the month, viz 1910 10th and 1917, l7th
In all he theirs named, the low occurred
between goth ard SYST and ranged IRON % 70 30 degrees
showing uniformity. Il. MERRIAM
BROOKLYN HnGhrs, Nov s, 1855.