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✨ Meteorological Observations

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS

AT THE

OBSERVATORY, WELLINGTON,

For the Month ending 31st January, 1863.

Lat. 41 deg. 16 min. 25 sec. S. Long. 174 deg. 47 min. 25 sec. E. Height above sea 90 feet.

Day of Month	Barometer	Thermometer	Clouds	Maximum in Sun's Rays	Maximum in Shade	Wind	In. of Rain in 24 hours
	Dry Bulb.	Wet Bulb.			Morning	Afternoon	Force
1863.
January,
Thursday 1	29.958	66.0	63.00	6.5	87	71	NNE
Friday 2	.989	64.0	60.25	1.5	88	70	N
Saturday 3	.805	68.5	58.75	6.0	106	75
Sunday 4	.735	66.0	61.75	5.0	86	71	N
Monday 5	.683	65.0	59.75	9.0	92	73	NE
Tuesday 6	.277	68.0	58.75	6.5	91	66	N
Wednesday 7	.788	61.0	55.75	6.5	90	68
Thursday 8	.891	55.5	50.75	5.0	88	65	N
Friday 9	.797	64.5	58.75	8.5	87	71
Saturday 10	.750	66.0	59.75	0.0	92	73	NE
Sunday 11	.987	66.0	58.75	5.5	96	73
Monday 12	.962	59.5	54.25	3.0	100	68
Tuesday 13	.900	69.0	62.50	7.5	102	75
Wednesday 14	30.152	62.5	58.00	1.0	98	72	E
Thursday 15	.159	61.5	55.50	1.5	98	70
Friday 16	.104	62.0	55.00	0.0	106	72
Saturday 17	.059	63.5	57.00	2.0	105	71
Sunday 18	29.958	66.0	58.50	6.5	97	72
Monday 19	30.121	64.0	60.50	8.0	79	70	NNE
Tuesday 20	.139	61.5	57.50	0.5	97	70
Wednesday 21	.158	69.5	65.00	2.0	105	75
Thursday 22	.170	72.5	61.25	9.0	93	76
Friday 23	.153	59.0	56.50	1.0	85	63
Saturday 24	.312	57.0	52.50	4.0	89	60
Sunday 25	.256	57.5	52.00	0.0	97	66
Monday 26	.092	61.0	56.50	2.0	108	70	NW
Tuesday 27	29.912	66.5	60.50	7.0	95	72
Wednesday 28	.861	67.0	61.00	7.0	86	71
Thursday 29	.826	65.0	60.00	5.5	81	70
Friday 30	.693	65.5	60.00	8.5	91	71
Saturday 31	.995	60.0	55.50	2.0	85	68

Note.—Clouds.—10 is an overcast sky, and 0 is a cloudless sky.

Wind: Force.—The Maximum Pressure in 24 hours in lbs., and decimal parts of a lb. on the square foot.

Barometer.—The height is reduced to sea level, at a temperature of 32 deg. Far.

Thermometer Means.—Deducible from the Maximum and Minimum readings, at 10 a.m., of the 24 hours previously.

Maximum in Sun’s Rays and Shade.—These figures are the readings at 10 a.m., and like the wind’s force, thermometer means, and fall of rain, apply to the 24 hours previously.

JOHN KNOWLES, in Charge.

VUW Te Waharoa — Wellington Provincial Gazette 1863, No 7

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