THE WEATHER A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1789, 16 September 1884, Page 2

THE WEATHER A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

Id an address delivered recently to the members of the Iloyal_ Society of Edinburgh, Lord Moitcrieff remarked that the meteoroligical records of the Society did not support the idea that mean temperature in the olden time was higher than it is how. Things must have been somewhat discouraging for the farmors in 1782, for a paper is noticed in the second volume of" Transactions" by Dr. Roebuok, of Sheffield, who was the manager of the Carron Ironworks, recommending.farmers not cut their cut their corn green in October, although there was ice threequarters of an inch thick at Barrowstounness, because corn would fill at a temperature! of 43, Things looked brighter from 1794 to 1799, for which years we have results furnished by Playfaiv. For the first three years--1794,1795, and 1796the mean temperature was 48; and that although 1795 was one of the most severe winters on record, the thermometer haying stood several times below zero, and a continuous frost having lasted for fifty-three days. The mean temperature in 1794, however, was 50. In the next three years the mean temperature was 48, that of 1798 being 49.28, The highest temperature noted in these returns is that of May, 1807, when the thermometer stood at 85 at Carlisle, ; and the next that on the sth of August, 1770, when the thermometer at Hawkhill was at 81._ The two ■ years of the century in which the mean temperature was the highest were : 1811 and 1822, in both of which years it was 49.