The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-01-07
Inc Egis and Intelligencer,
BEL AIR, Md, JANUARY :, 1881.
Meteorological Report for Dec, 1850.

Maximum temperature on the 9Th, 40 degrees
Minimum temperature on the goth, IL degrees
. Mean temperature of the month 2G.G5 degrees.
Mean of 81 observations at y. NJ, 81 .52 degrees.
LOwest2P. NJ. observation on the ;Oth, . degrees
have no record of q lower mean for December
save one, that of 1875, which gave mean one de-
gree lower than the average temperature OF the
past month.
During the sixteen years that have been in
Maryland have never seen so cold day as was
the Oth The mean temperature OF tne day ,tn re-,
air was very quiet, on lower grounds nuch lower
temperatures We're noted. AT tollihGsworth
Mills point 40 to $40 feet lower 1t was IL degrees
below zero on the morning of the 18th there IL de
grees below and on the morning of the 3lst the
thermometer stood there AT =! degrees below zero
here only degrees below.
At Mr.. Whitakcrs Mills, hear the mercury in
dicated 10 degrees below zero. nave t3npar pared
Rain and melted snow 6.a9 inches. This Is J
inches above the average for December.
In the storm of the Nth and list, there icii, as
nearly as could be measured, inches OF SNOW
which melted gave !. 10 inches of water. In the
storm Of the 18th and 18th there fell about l3lg
inches Of snow, which, melted, gave 10 inches of
water and in the storm of the 18th there tel ~
inches of snow, very highly crystnllizcd ana light
which gave 0.i5 of IN inch of water. So there
now lies on the ground, in the form oi snow
about 81 inches of water.
Snow fall during the month ~ inches.
AQUEOUS PREcIPITrIoS DURING 1850.
January 10 inches August .3.5l inches.
March H%cG". .!y. ,,,.itt October.
April....,....IW -" Novemb Der BOZ
December. ..b'D
June. ....,'..J0 % -.
Iuly,.......S43 Total. 49,. A -. inches.
This Is one inch above the mean for the past ten
years ut this point but it should be observed that
the great rains of July came in the form of Nio-
lent showers, two showers of unusual VIOLENCE, in
which the greater portion of the water ran on lto
the streams add TO this the 3s inches of water
that now lies on the ground in the form OF snow,
and we can understand how the wells ana springs
are yet low.
Regarding weather prophecies for months in
advance, suppose many have read how in the
second year of the publication in London OF the
first Almanac containing conjectures for the
weather, such crowd besegcd the Office OF pub
LEGATION, eager to purchase programme of the
weather for the coming year, that the police mad
to be in attendance to keep order. The sale the
next year was very much diminished by tire pub
lished report of a curious unbeliever, who having
compared the weather of the year with the con
lectures" found them to fail as often or oftener
than they hit. 1t will be remembered that Mr.
Vcnnor predicted an exceedingly wintry
month" these We're his words, for February last,
and we had the mildest February for ten previous
years. He utterly failed both on temperature
and barometer readings. Editors too credulous
give him undeserved notoriety by repeating his
predictions. Notice that in the Hagerstown AL
inanac for 1880, as also in Kurtz's Family Alma
nae snow Is conjectured for the last days of De-
cember. Il. e. CuRTISS.
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