Excerpt from Proceedings of the Meteorological Society, Vol. 5: 1869, November 17, to 1871, June 21In july the heat and drought still persisted with relentless severity. The wind was very light, and principally with an east erly direction, the sky bein remarkably clear and bright. The heat attained its some on t e 23rd, when the shade-temperature rose to being, as far as my knowledge os, the highest ever attained in England. It sunk in the nig t to thus giving a range of 40 and a mean of The suffocating heat of the 21st and 22nd I shall never forget; the sky was cloudless with scarcely a breath of air, and wh at there was felt more as if it had passed through an oven. On the 21st the maximum was but on the 22nd it attained to and a sun-thermo meter on the lawn soon reached thus giving a range of with the minimum.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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