The weather guide-book - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ... and north-east, blew on the last three "days from a south-westerly point. Eain fell to the amount of 1 '54 "in., of which as much as 0-62 in., including melted snow, fell on "Wednesday. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water "of the Thames was 437 deg.; that of the lowest was 41-6 deg." These facts need little comment. The great depression of the barometer on the 7th (28'81 in.); and the fall of temperature to six degrees below the average on the 9th, and a fall of snow and rain on that day of 0-62 in. are incontrovertible evidences of Saturn's influence. Compare the rain-fall of the week (T54 in.) with that of the following one (0-06 in.) under Jupiter's aspects, and who can doubt the influence of either planet on the weather? The heavy rains so overcharged the Bradfield reservoirs, near Sheffield, which were not strong enough to resist the extra pressure put upon them, that the waters rushed forth in such volumes that Sheffield was inundated on the early morning of the 12th inst., and 250 lives lost. We extract the following paragraph from the Times of Friday, March 11th, 1864:--"The Inundation In Notts.--Nottingham, Thursday.--Snow fell here without intermission the whole of yesterday, and at night a severe frost set in. The floods on the Trent have not subsided, the height of the water being only about a foot and a quarter below the water-mark of the great flood of 1857 The roads are quite impassable in some districts, and if farmers and others have to transact any special business from villago to village they have to go either in small boats or in carts for their safety.... On Wednesday morning, about 5 o'clock, a snow-storm came on with great suddenness upon the Northumberland coast. At 8 o'clock, when the sno...