Meteorological observations and essays / By John Dalton.

  • John Dalton
Date:
1834
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    1790. June 16—Distant thunder in the evening, at Kendal.*—At 84 P, M. several loud claps, at Keswick. June 22.—From 6 to past 8 A. M. much loud thunder, with rain, at both places. August 27.—Some thunder P. M. at Kendal. September 3.—P. M. a little thunder, at Keswick. 1791; January 5.—Loud thunder in the night, with hail, at Keswick. May 21.—At 6 P. M. distant thunder, and hail showers, at Kendal. June 4.—Betwixt 1 and 2 P. M. several peals of thunder, at Kendal. The last of them was the most remarkable one ever remembered at this place ;—instantaneously after the flash, was heard a very loud and tremendous crack, exactly similar, but incomparably more loud, than the report of a musket; every house in the town was sensibly shaken by it, and universal terror produced by the loudness and singularity of the report; but pro- videntially no harm was done.—The rain, mixed with hail, ex- ceeded in quantity what has ever been produced here on a similar occasion, for 6 years at least; there fell upwards of one inch and a half in the space of three quarters of an hour, though a consider- able part of that interval was moderate rain. N. B. It is remarkable that the barometer was stationary all that day, and so high as 30.06. [8] June 12.—At 4 P. M. a crack of thunder, with hail and rain, at Kendal. July 17.—At 10 P. M. loud claps to the NW. at Keswick. 18.—After 2 P. M. several claps, at Kendal; one of which not unlike that of the 4th of June. At Keswick, 2 claps A. M. and 8 P. M. with excessively heavy showers. . * There was, this evening, about Preston-hall, 6 miles from Kendal, one of the most extraordinary torrents of hail and rain, attended with thunder, that is upon record.