Kept at the Observatory of the Naval Academy, Gosport. The units under "Clouds" represent the days on which each modification of cloud has appeared. The observations in each line of this Table, under Barometer, Thermometer, Wind, and Rain, are for a period of 24 hours, beginning at 8 AM. RESULTS. BAROMETER (Maximum...... 30-33 July 8th, Wind NW. Range of the Mercury for the lunar period, ending the 18th instant.... 29.906 30-075 30-014 30.139 4.870 0.540 18. 829 July 4th, Wind SE. ..... 25.00 Number of Changes, caused by the variations in the Weight of the Atmosphere....... Range... Mean temperature of the Air for 31 days with the Sun in Cancer.... 66:48 A clear sky, 3; fair, with various modifications of clouds, 15; an overcast sky without rain, 6; rain, 7-Total, 31 days. CLOUDS. Cirrus, Cirrocumulus, Cirrostratus, Stratus, Cumulus, Cumulostratus, Nimbus. OBSERVATIONS ON THE WEATHER, THIS month has been alternately dry and wet, accompanied with strong gales of wind, lightning and thunder; and what is more remarkable, the maximum and medium temperatures of the air fall short of those of last month, the latter by ths of a degree; the heat at the earth's surface having been diminished by the heavy rains, which amount to between 4 and 5 inches in depth. But after so dry a winter and spring, these copious falls of rain have evidently changed the face of the country, and have been of the utmost benefit to the growing corn, to the grass lands, and to vegetation in general. Although the mean temperature of the air has been retrograde this month, in comparison of last, yet it is nearly 50 higher than in July, 1821. The barometer began to sink rapidly on the 11th instant, and has continued much below its mean height since the 15th. The evaporation too, is less this month than last by 24th inches. The lightning in the night of the 18th, was almost as strong as that in the night of the 4th, when the Albion's masts and the Sheer-hulk were damaged in Portsmouth DAILY July 1. Fair, with a brisk drying wind. 2. AM. over with Cumulostratus, and a solar halo: PM. fine, with the lighter modifications of clouds, which formed a mackerel-back sky. 3. Fair, with a fresh wind from SW. and a solar halo in passing beds of Cirrostratus in the afternoon a whitish moonlight, and diverging Cirri, which stretched in narrow bands nearly across the visible hemisphere in the direction of East and West. 4. At a quarter before 7 AM. 2 parhelia appeared, each being 23° 11' from the Sun's centre, and about a degree without the edge of a faint solar halo, which was formed in an attenuated Cirrostratus, the day fine, but cloudy at intervals: two currents of air after sunset, which united the low passing electrical clouds, and produced vivid lightning through the night, accompanied at midnight by several tremendous claps of thunder in the zenith, and torrents of rain. Immediately before the rain came on, several balls of fire fell in the neighbourhood, and the forked lightning damaged the main-mast and main-top-mast of his Majesty's ship Albion, and slightly injured the Sheer-hulk in Portsmouth harbour; it also partly unroofed a house at Forton near this place. 5. AM. overcast with Cirrostratus of an electrical appearance, and distant thunder to the eastward at mid-day steady but heavy rain came on trom SW. and produced ths of an inch in depth in less than two hours: PM. cloudy and two winds, the upper current from NW. 6. Calm and a steady rain, with little intermission, and a rising barometer; a circumstance that seldom occurs while it rains. 7. A fair day, with clouds and a brisk wind: a clear sky by night. 8. Fair, with Cirri, Cirrocumuli, and Cumuli, and opposite winds, the upper one from NW.: an overcast sky by night. 9. As the preceding, and a gale from SW. by night. 10. A continuation of the gale, and Cirrostratus sweeping the surrounding hills in its passage to the NW, followed by a little light rain: a suuny afternoon, and overcast by night. 11. AM. overcast with Cumulostratus: PM. heavy rain, and a hard gale from SW. 12. AM. showery, and a continuation of the Naval Academy, Gosport. Harbour. It was brought on by nearly opposite winds of different temperatures, in the evening (18th), when they began to discharge their electrical contents during twilight; and at 9 o'clock the forked lightning was succeeded by four or five claps of thunder, with awful and irregular detonations, which seemed to travel a great distance before the vibrations of the atmo¬ sphere ceased, accompanied by a smart shower of rain. The variegated lightning from the passing clouds to the NW. was discharged in quick succession throughout the night, sometimes in the shape of long trains of small balls of fire, but mostly in extensive sheets, with a light not far short of daylight. The atmospheric and meteoric phænomena that have come within our observation this month, are 1 anthelion in the afternoon of the 12th, 2 parhelia at 7 AM. of the 4th, 9 solar halos, 1 rainbow, 4 meteors, vivid lightning in the nights of the 4th and 18th, thunder on five different days, and 11 gales of wind, or days on which they have prevailed, namely, 1 from SE., 9 from SW., and 1 from the W. REMARKS. gale: PM. fair with Cumulostrati, in one of which modifications of clouds an Anthelion appeared at 5 PM.: an overcast sky and a strong breeze from NW. by night, with light showers. 13. A fine day and night, with two winds, the upper one from NW. and Cumulostratus at intervals. 14. AM. nascent Cumuli and the lighter modifications of clouds: PM. clear, and dew in the night. 15. A fair day, with prevailing Cirrus, in which a faint solar halo appeared in the afternoon: cloudy by night, and a little light rain. 16. Sunshine, with Cumulostratus, and nearly opposite winds, the upper one from NE. and a faint solar halo overcast by night, and light rain towards morning. 17. A fine sunny day; and a clear sky by night. 18. AM. fair: in the afternoon the sky was overcast with attenuated Cirrostratus, in which a faint solar halo appeared, followed by a few drops of rain at intervals, and nearly opposite winds, the upper one from SE. and the lower one from the northward: lightning, thunder, and rain by night. 19. Scattered portions of thunder clouds from the south, and a little light rain till 9 AM. afterwards a fair day, with a strong southerly breeze : a clear sky by night and 2 small meteors. 20. Showery at intervals, and a gale from SW. 21. Overcast, windy, and showers at intervals, except in the afternoon. 22. A fine day, and a strong gale from the west: the night as the preceding. 23. AM. overcast with Cumulostratus: PM. incessant rain, and a gale from SW. 24. and 25. Sunshine, and a continuation of the gale: alternately fine and cloudy by night, the lower strata of clouds often passing over quickly, with only a few drops of rain. 26. AM. overcast and a gentle breeze: PM. fine, with Cumuli, and Cirri, the former of a dark blue colour at sunset, and the latter of a deep red: cloudy and windy by night. 27. AM. fair, with lofty diverging Cirri sometimes crossing each other in a dark blue sky a solar halo, followed by heavy showers of rain in the afternoon, and a strong gale from SE.: flying clouds through the uight. 26. A stormy day and night, the gale from SW. Notwithstanding the almost Incessant rain during the last 24 hours, the evaporation in that time amounts to upwards of one-eighth of an inch in depth. 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