THE BAROMETER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LYTTELTON TIMES. Sir,—Having met with the following meteorological record in the ' Boston Traveller,' I am desirous of asking your numerous subscribers if amongst their barometrical registers they cannot furnish a still higher reading. I think that last May or June such occurred.—"Yesterday, the 16th November, at 9 a.m., the altitude of the barometer (reduced to the temperature of 50 and the mean level of the sea) was 31-055 inches, or above 31 inches for the fifth or sixth time only within 38 years, and the highest since February, 12, 1857, when it attained to 31-125 inches, the greatest altitude ever reached, as is believed, at any place at the level of the sea. In Europe, it is said, the barometer never rises to 31 inches; at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, its maximum in ninety years was 30-96." I am, Sir, your obedient servant, ROBERT GREAVES. Akaroa, May 11, 1863.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1098, 20 May 1863, Page 5
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