| | | 909 | | | | |-------- | | | | | -29.32 | | ----+------------------+----------------------------------------------- Day | Barometer and | of | Thermometer | Mon.| attached. | Remarks on the Weather, &c. +--------+---------+ |_Barom._|_Thermo._| ----+--------+---------+----------------------------------------------- 1 | 29.908 | +17 | b. c. b. c. s. drifting. 2 | 30.128 | +16 | b. m. b. Faint aurora, centre S.W. by S., | | | alt. 15°; drifting; some streaks of aurora | | | to the southward pointing to the zenith. 3 | 30.134 | +18.5 | b. c. b. Much refraction; thermometer in house | | | +11°; a beam of aurora to the south pointing | | | to the zenith. 4 | 30.023 | +15.6 | b. b. Hills much refracted; aurora faint; | | | centre of arch S. by W.; alt. 10°; aurora in | | | a narrow line parallel to horizon, alt. 4°, | | | extent 70°, centre south. 5 | 29.93 | +14.6 | b. c. m. drifting. 6 | 30.04 | +14.6 | b. m. drifting. A faint aurora extending from | | | S.S.E. across the zenith. 7 | 29.861 | +12.6 | b. c. m. Mercury froze after two hours' | | | exposure. 8 | 29.8 | +11 | b. b. drifting. 9 | 29.974 | | Much drift; could not get out to see | | | thermometer, door being drifted up. 10 | 29.139 | + 6 | o. o. Much drift; obliged to take the | | | thermometers into the house, as the pillars | | | of snow on which the posts were placed were | | | nearly all blown away. 11 | 29.193 | +10.5 | o. b. m. Much drift; a beam of aurora S.E.; | | | alt. 25°. 12 | 29.309 | +14.5 | b. m. Much drift; very faint aurora; centre | | | W. by N.; alt. 10°. 13 | 29.549 | +12.3 | b. m. drifting; a very faint aurora, centre | | | S.S.W., alt. 16°; extent 60° or 70°. 14 | 29.588 | +13 | b. c. m. drift; arch of aurora faint, | | | alt. 11°, centre S.S.W., extent 90°. 15 | 29.608 | + 7.6 | b. m. c. Streams of bright light shooting from | | | the sun to the alt. of 5°. 16 | 29.67 | + 7 | b. c. b. drifting, stratus; arch of aurora | | | faint, centre south, alt. 18°, extent 60°. | | | Centre S.S.W., alt. 12°, extent 90°. 17 | 29.887 | +13 | b. m. drifting. Aurora visible, faint but | | | brightest to the westward; centre S., | | | alt. 60°. 18 | 29.245 | + 6 | b. c. b. c. m. A very faint arch of aurora | | | from the N.W.