Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine, Volumes 33-34Edward Stanford, 1899 |
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Page 114 - About the first week in October, the rich green, which prevailed through the whole summer, is usually passed away. The brilliant and various colours of the fern are then in harmony with the autumnal woods ; bright yellow or lemon colour, at the base of the mountains, melting gradually, through orange, to a dark russet brown towards the summits, where the plant, being more exposed to the weather, is in a more advanced state of decay.
Page 67 - ... extreme north and west coasts. June is the month with the least number of rainy days, but in July the summer maximum of rain occurs, bringing the well-known Lammas floods. In October the weather becomes decidedly showery, and the distribution begins to assume its winter type. November is the month with the greatest frequency of rainy days. — Mr. F. J. Brodie read a paper on the abnormal weather of January last, which was one of the most remarkable winter months on record. The month was singularly...
Page 65 - Garriott, in charge of the forecast division, states that the most remarkable series of cold waves in the history of the Weather Bureau traversed the United States from the North Pacific to the South Atlantic coasts...
Page 170 - Falmouth and Valencia. The author is of opinion that the primary cause of the diurnal oscillation of the barometer is solar radiation, and that its amplitude is chiefly determined by the temperature of the lower strata of the atmosphere. The relative magnitudes of the different phases of the barometer oscillation, as observed, depend (largely upon the geographical position and physical surroundings of the place of observation, in so far as these are capable of modifying its temperature conditions,...
Page 67 - He had taken the number of rainy days in each month at forty stations for the twenty years 1876-95, and then divided that number by the total number of days in the month, and so ascertained the resulting percentage. The greatest excess of frequency is always on the extreme north and west coasts. June is the month with the least number of rainy days, but...
Page 161 - Fassig. The Climate and Weather of Baltimore. Prepared by direction of Willis L. Moore, Chief of US Weather Bureau. Maryland Weather Service. Special publication 2, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1907. 8°. 515 S., 24 Tafeln. Heinz von Ficker. Zur Meteorologie von West-Turkestan. Wien, 1908. 4°.
Page 107 - ... PHENOMENA IN LONDON WITH DIFFERENT WINDS FROM 1763-1897. BY RC MOSSMAN, FRSE, FRMetSoc. [Read June 15, 1898.] IN previous papers communicated to the Society on the non-instrumental meteorology of London, the secular and seasonal variation of some phenomena have been discussed. In the present paper the results of an analysis of the direction of the surface winds observed during the occurrence of such atmospheric visitations as snow, hail, gales, etc., will be considered. In a number of cases the...
Page 169 - ... to be determined entirely by the local conditions. (3) That no other form of anemometer offers such advantages as the pressure-tube, from the fact that it can be run up and secured easily at...
Page 82 - Belville gives a table of extreme pressures at Greenwich (not at the Royal Observatory) from 1811 to 1848, and from it, applying all necessary corrections, I find that on January 9th, 1825, the sea-level pressure rose to 30-958 ins.
Page 107 - October 15, 1897, when, by means of four kites having a combined lifting surface of 150 square feet, the meteorograph at the end of 20,100 feet of wire, was raised vertically 11,080 feet above the hill. About 200 records from kites have been obtained in the free air at heights from 100 to 11,000 feet in all kinds of weather.