ABSTRACT OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2090, 4 November 1880, Page 3

ABSTRACT OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.

Oheistchuech Obsebvatoby. Lat. 43° 32' 16" S. ; long. 172° 38' 50" E. Altitude above the sea 21 feet. An Abstract of observations taken during October, 1880. BABOUBTBB. Corrected and reduced to 32.0 Fah. and sea level:— Mean reading for month ... 29.857 in. Highest do.—on 9th ... 30.869 in. Lowest do.—on Ist 29.176 in. Extreme range during month 1.193 in. TBMPBBATtTBE IN SHADB. Approximate mean temperature for month ... ... ••• 52.3 Fah. Extreme maximum do. —on 12th 73.0 „ Extreme minimum do.—on 9th 26.0 „ Extreme range of temperature for month ... ... ••• ••• 47.0 „ BXPOSBD THEEitOMBTBBS. Mean solar radiation _ 117.2 „ Maximum solar radiation—on 31st 134.2 ~ Moan terrestrial radiation ... 37.8 ~ Minimum terrestrial radiation —on 9th 17.8 „ HYGBOMBTBICAL. Mean elastic force of vapour, 0.296 inches. Mean temperature of the dew point, 44.7 Fah. Mean degree of moisture (saturation =100) 76 BAIN. Total rainfall for month ... 1.22 inches. Number of days on which rain foil — 8 days. WIND. Average daily velocity for month, 161.0 miles. Maximum velocity on 2nd 450.0 ~ Direction—B.E., 14 days; E.,3; S.W., 12; N.W., 2 —31 days. Total evaporation by gauge, 4,989 inches. Mean evaporation do. 0.160 ~ Mean amount of cloud (0 clear sky; 10 overcast) 5.9 Moan amount of ozone, Moffat’s scale, 1 to 10—6.4. The observations are taken at 9.30 a.m., and record the temperature, &c., of previous twenty-four hours. SBMAEK3. The month has been fine and seasonable, at times sultry ; stormy weather on the 2nd, 7tb, Btb, and 24th ; on the 9th a hard frost, doing considerable damage to the early vegetation ; on eight mornings tho thermometer on the ;rass registered below freezing point; there have been twenty-three fine days during the month ; prevailing winds S.W. and N.E. ; tho rainfall has been in excess of the same month of previous five years. J. B. Stambbll, Observer.