WEATHER TABLE.

West Coast Times, Issue 119, 3 February 1866, Page 2

WEATHER TABLE.

Tho annexed mouioramia of ilio went her nnd temperature of (ho ahnosphero for Ihe month of December will bo !ho hut of Uio kind wo shall publish as tho Hokitika Observatory being nearly, completed, wo shall for Iho fuluro obtain weather statistics from v really roliublo soinvo. Tt is satisfactory that tho Q-ovorninont lmvo at lust aroußeil (hcmsolvos to tho necessity of establishing such nn inslilution, and wo fool certain tho rosult will bo aliko satisfactory to themselves and tho public. As it is, little or nothing is known of West Const wonthrr save that it rains ft great deal and is not very cold, but what tho fluctuations of tho baromotor are, tho i'oroo of tho wind, or its prcva-ling direction, van fal', and oloc-. trical ohanges, no ono lias Iho remotest idea This, however, will henceforth bo rectified, and Westhvnd meteorological observations bo well ,uud regulurly taken. Wo shall thoreforo make our bow to Iho public hi l our present chnvaclcr as rcoordors of tho weather, but whilst doing bo, and apologising for tho very orudo and imperfect statements) hitherto supplied by us, wo cannot but congratulate ourselves in having been tho Jlrat to introduce Iho sybloni horo ; and that from Iho commencement wo have never censed to advocate tho establishment of a permanent observatory.l) living the piislinonth we have been favored with very lino weather, ho lino indeed as to occasion nostuall surpriso amongst those who havo lately arrived hero, and whoso impressions of Westlnnd climate, from tho generally received accounts, havo been 'anything but favourable. Wo huvo had many bright sunshiny daje, but tho character of tho weather has been marked by a sultry oppressiveness most trying •to bouio constitutions, indicating tho oxislenco of a superabundance of electricity in the atiuosphoro j and yot strange as it may appear, tho numboi\of days on which mm foil exceeds thofio wholly flno. On referonco to the appended table, it will bo Been that of tho thirty-ono days comprising tho month of December, four! con wero fine, entirely free from rain^twclvo wore partiully wet, and 11 vo on which rain fell unceasingly from morning to /night, llainy days, therefor'o, predominated over lino onos by three. In contrasting tho past month with tho one prceoding it, wo find that tho numbor of days on which rain fell aro exactly tho same, sevonteen in oach. December, however, has tho advantage- in another rospeot, for on ono of its days only did it rain unceasingly against iivo days in January similarly visitocK We, howovcr, boliovo that tho absojuto dittbronoo in thcrain fall of the two 'months is very slight indeed. Tho mean tomperatuvo of tho month is 6<i degroos, just one degveo higher than that of December, whilst tho highest mean daily temperature was 71 degrees on tho 22nd ana 28rd. The highost tomperaturo marked by tho thermometer was 87 degrees on the 29th, and tho lowest 51 degrees at midnight on tho 23rd.

Dtito j Jjloviung. I I Noon. Midnight. I " 1 2 3 4 fi 0 7 8 <J 10 li 12 13 14 15 1(1 17 18 1U 20 21 flno, 59fine, 02cloudy, 60 1 hcnvyraiuGO. fine, (JOlino, 58" rain, 54* drizzle, CO' drizzle, GO* mm, 5S' lino, 57' flno, 68line, CO 1 line, 5/' fine, (50. fine, 60line, COcloudy, 58' cloud y," 67* fino, 50Hue, G4,line, 75line, 80cloudy, 70' i nin, G2- ! lino, 08flno, 72rain, 6(Jdrizzle, 70* drizzlo, 67' nun. GBfino, 79' line, 78' line, 84' drizzle, 71' fino, 80lino, 78cloudy, 72' cloudy, 74' cloudy, 76. cloudy, 7'l" uloiuly, 7Glino, CO 1 fine, 01rain, 50* Ishowoi'Vi Cl 1 fine, f,2[cloudy, 06' rain, *(!•!•• drizzle, 50' drizzle, 58 1 line, 55fino, 00(ino, 58lino, 61'driz'/10, 5S* " line, f>7< fine, 55* drizzle, O'O' mm, (10* rnin, 57* line, 50doudy, 08-, sultry cloudy, G4-, sultry mm, (>ii* line, 50" ruin, 62nun, 68 f line, 5(5line, 52* lino, EU.'ftin, JJiff5 f cloudy, 54* 22 - lino, 70' i cloudy, 80. i 23 24 2(J 27 28 20 30 !» 31 li Hue, 71' cloudy, 66' line, 60' tlrizzle, 08 1 fine, 00fine, 58., line, {)2. jlino, 04* lain, GO* clouch, 81' rain, 70line, 70ruin, G2fine, To* line, 7Glint, 87' cloudy, SO 1 i-loudy, 77'