METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, JANUARY, 1866.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 223, 2 March 1866, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, JANUARY, 1866.

A very wet, boisterous and disagreeable month and the coldest January on record. Although no such extraordinary single rainfall occurred as in January, 1865, there were the three heaviest falls ever registered here in one month, each exceeding an inch and three quarters in 24 hours. On the 7th, there was a most tremendous gale from N. to N.W., from 2 p.m., till midnight. Much damage was done in the country. Frequent thunderstorms occurred, the severest on the 25th. The mean height of the barometer was 29 681 inches, the greatest 30 f OB inches, on the 30th, the least 29-02 inches on the 26th. The mean temperature of the air was 57*3 deg. the lowest yet recorded in January ; deg. below the average of seven previous years, the highest day temperature was 85"4 deg. on the Bth, the lowest night temperature 33*1 deg. on the 21st. The total range of temperature during the month was therefore 51*7 degrees. The mean degree of atmospheric humidity was ■65 ; complete saturation being represented by 1.00, the minimum was "77 on the Bth. Solar radiation was greatest on the 25th, when the black-bulb thermometer read 121 deg. — or 40 degrees above the air maximum ; terrestrial radiation on the 21st, when the thermometer on grass read 28*9 deg. or 52 deg. below the air minimum. The mean amount of cloud was "8-10, indicating total obscuration.

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