From Preliminaries it is time to proceed nearer to the Tempest it self. And the foregoing Day, _viz. Thursday, Nov._ 25. I think deserveth regard. In the Morning of that day was a little Rain, the Winds high in the Afternoon: S.b.E. and S. In the Evening there was Lightning; and between 9 and 10 of the Clock at Night, a violent, but short Storm of Wind, and much Rain at _Upminster_; and of Hail in some other Places, which did some Damage: There fell in that Storm 1,65 _l._ of Rain. The next Morning, which was _Friday, Novem._ 26. the Wind was S.S.W. and high all Day, and so continued till I was in Bed and asleep. About 12 that Night, the Storm awaken'd me, which gradually encreas'd till near 3 that Morning; and from thence till near 7 it continued in the greatest excess: and then began slowly to abate, and the _Mercury_ to rise swiftly. The Barometer I found at 12 h. ½ P.M. at 28,72, where it continued till about 6 the next Morning, or 6¼, and then hastily rose; so that it was gotten to 82 about 8 of the Clock, as in the Table. How the Wind sat during the late Storm I cannot positively say, it being excessively dark all the while, and my Vane blown down also, when I could have seen: But by Information from Millers, and others that were forc'd to venture abroad; and by my own guess, I imagin it to have blown about S.W. by S. or nearer to the S. in the beginning, and to veer about towards the West towards the End of the Storm, as far as W.S.W. The degrees of the Wind's Strength being not measurable (that I know of, though talk'd of) but by guess, I thus determine, with respect to other Storms. On _Feb._ 7. 1698/9. was a terrible Storm that did much damage. This I number 10 degrees; the Wind then W.N.W. _vid. Ph. Tr. No._ 262. Another remarkable Storm was _Feb._ 3. 1701/2. at which time was the greatest descent of the ☿ ever known: This I number 9 degrees. But this last of _November_, I number at least 15 degrees. As to the _Stations_ of the _Barometer_, you have Mr. _Towneley_'s and mine in the following Table to be seen at one View. A Table shewing the Height of the _Mercury_ in the Barometer, at _Townely_ and _Upminster_, before, in, and after the Storm