Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-03-02
THE WEATHER RECORD

JANUARY.-The new year dawned wit
a day clear and beautiful, mercury at
degrees, and but little snow on the groun'
Two perfectly cloudless days. One sols
halo. Passsble sleighing 12 days, thong
runners were uaed exclusively but tour G
Ave. Several heavy thunder showers i
evening of 10th, with mercury at 80 dc
grees.
FEBRUARY.-C Coolest month in tn
year. No sleighing. Rough wheeling
Two cloudIess days. Three solar halos
MARcH.-March came in like lion
MANY sudden changes. Mercury fel
"a degrees on evening of 18th, in abou
three hours. Snow was inches in deptl
the 10Th, and the ground remained whit
till the 22d, though sleighs were used bu
Ave days, and exclusively but two. Fou
cloudless days. Robins appeared on 'h'
9th, and OF the 21st blackbirds were sing
ing on Micbigan's shore"
APRI1.-Replete with lovely days, ter
nerfeotly cloudless. Early in the month
tho buds began to unfold, the fields to dis
play thick mantle of green, and the for
eats TO ring with the voice of many song
sters. Roads quite dusty the 9Th, Cypress
ively warm the 18th and 14th, refreshing
thunder shower the 24th.
MAYA real Vermont June Many
clear days eleven oloudless), with light
showers and heavy thunder in the night
But little rain fell during the month, and
the last half was dry and dusty. Mercu'
~ rose to 81 degrees in the shade at noon
on the Sd. There was white frost the
18Th, probably the last of the season,
though slight frost was reported on the
2Sth.
JUNE.-Began hot and dry, mercury
ranging from 80 to 80 degrees in the sun
at 2 o m, frat four days In fact, the
month was characterized by sultry days
and thunder showers, there being not less
than twelve of the former in which the
mercury rose above 80 degrees during the
3av partially in the shade, and to 101 de-
5reeq at 10 d. m, 100 at / p. m, 98 at
noon in the shade on the 25th, 2Gth and
9th, respectively And of the latter it
might almost be said they were number.
lees. although the amount OF water that
fell dnring the month was doubtless below
the average, sad the month went as it
esme-hot and dry. Nine clondless days.
Mercury atood III degrees III the sun at
ga m. on the 25th, and 1876 in the sun on
house top the 28d, at 2 p. m.
JULT.-Wnrmest month in year. Three
5loudlesa days Quite severe hail storm
occurred in D. m. Of the Goth. If heat
and electricity are not identical, we know
thew are mysteriously connected, and dur
ing the month there was vast amount
n thunder and lightning and many heavy
showers, especially in the latter part of the
night or early morning. The 23d WAS
thought to the most oppressively hot day
If The year, the mercury standing 10Y de-
greps at a M in sun, and 100 degrees
at noon in shade; and this must have been
several degrees lower than it would have
bean but for thick haze which nearly
5bscurcd tho sun after a. m. For if, as
Bauguer afiirms, atmospheric absorption
rpdncos the intensity of solar light so
much that it is 1854 times less at sunrise
than when the aun is at the zenith, we may
reasonably conclude so warm" q morning
sun would "wax hot" at MONDAY. And,
asa naturn! consequence, on the evening
If the following day, the gath, occurred
\ terrific war along the "battlements OF
heaven" For about three hours the black,
heavy clouds, which completely enVel-
oped the sky. rolled together in mad COM
motion. incesaant lightning hurled its
a ming ziegag bolts through the heavens
:, A Thousand different directions, while
the Ipafeniug, continuous roar of thunder
which shook earth and air completed the
grsrdest aud most interesting thunder
storm Of Ebe year.
AUeusT--Had two clondless days. and
twen,y.two recorded "clear." Several
nocturnal thunder storms occurred during
the month, but the fall of rain was light.
The month, having an average tempera-
ture of over six degrees colder, was far
less oppressive than July, so much easier
is it for the physical organism to endure
diminishing heat than one which is in
1reaSing.
September. - Three oloudless days.
Small quantity Of rain fell Beautiful
aurora in evening of gath. The month
hsd Il eoodly number of pleasant autumn
81 days, but ended with dark day, dis
NAL and rainy.
OcToBER.-O ftful, inoonstant month !
at one time 90 bslmy and delightful, at
another so inefably sour and forbidding
By the most charitable construction"
only Ave days can be recorded cloudless,
whereas the weather clerk insists there
should have been at least four times that
number. AS it ia, the month is booked
emphaticslly cloudy, dark and rainy, with
an average daily temperature of about
fourteen and a half degrees colder than
September. Several heavy thunder show
ers. Two solar halos A general frost
the 28th, first of the season. Another the
Goth. A remarkable display of Aurora
Borealis occurred on the nights of the
18th and 14th. On both nights brilliant
colored flames shst up from all points Of
the compass, though principally from the
north, to the zenith, where towering,
blood-red apex was formed, which lasted
an hour or 80, and then slowly moved to-
ward the southeast and gradually faded
away.
NovEMsER-Five oloudless days On
the 9th the first enow of winter fell, but
melted fast as it came. The ground was
again whitened the 18th and 18th, but
the snow soon disappeared. Though seye-
raj hard frosts occurred, the month, like
the two proceeding, was considered re-