Manual of the weather for the year MDCCCXXX: including a brief account of the cycles of the winds and weather, and of the circle of the prices of wheat |
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amount annual atmosphere aurora borealis aver average number average rate Barometer calculated calm cheap and dear circumstances cloudy days cold days colour column commenced consequence considerable number course cycle days of easterly days of rain days of snow days promise deficiency Dornoch easterly and westerly expected explained fair weather falls favourable force hard frost high winds hygrometer increased indolent inosculations kinds Lunar east wind Lunar west Lunar winds mercury mercury falls mercury rises minus month natural day natural mean rains north winds northerly and easterly number of days number of mild observations ordinary period Petersburgh phenomena promise to exceed quantity of rain quarter rain or snow reckoned Register remarkable rises season slight rain Solar and Lunar Solar east wind Solar west Solar winds summer of 1829 Sutherlandshire Table tion triennial variations west wind westerly points westerly winds winds appear windy days winter
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Page 92 - In foul weather, when the mercury rises much and high, and so continues for two or three days before the foul weather is quite over, then expect a continuance of fair weather to follow.
Page 91 - In very hot weather, the falling of the mercury fore-shows thunder. 3. In winter, the rising presages frost ; and in frosty weather, if the mercury falls three or four divisions, there will certainly follow a thaw.
Page 92 - When foul weather happens soon after the falling of the mercury expect but little of it ; and on the contrary, expect but little fair weather when it proves fair shortly after the mercury has risen.
Page 94 - And if in such a season it rise very suddenly and high, expect not fair weather more than a day or two, but rather that the mercury will fall again very...
Page 92 - ... rises to changeable, it denotes fair weather, though not to continue so long as if the mercury had risen higher. If the mercury stands at fair, and falls to changeable, bad weather may be expected.
Page 102 - From north latitude 12° to 43°, the mean number of rainy days is 78 — from 43° to 46°, the mean number is 103— from 46° to 50°, it is.
Page 92 - In fair weather, when the mercury falls much and low, and thus continues for two or three days before the rain comes, then expect a great deal of wet, and probably high winds.
Page 93 - After very great storms of wind, when the mercury has been low, it commonly rises again very fast. In settled fair weather, except the barometer sink much, expect but little rain. In a wet season, the smallest depressions must be attended to ; for when the air is much inclined to showers, a little sinking in the barometer denotes more rain.
Page 101 - When a storm arises on the 25th, 26th, or 27th of March (and not before) in any point, the succeeding summer is generally dry four times in five.
Page 93 - If after rain the wind change into any part of the north, with a clear and dry sky, and the mercury rise, it is a certain sign of fair weather.