VI.—The Meteorology of Edinburgh

Abstract

The first part of this paper was communicated to the Society on June 1, 1896, and published in the Transactions (vol. xxxviii. part iii., No. 20, pp. 681–755), the data there discussed being mean values of the climatic elements for each day in the year.In the present paper an attempt will be made to focus the results deduced from an examination and reduction of the various meteorological registers kept in Edinburgh from 1731 to 1736 and from 1764 to the present time, with special reference to secular and other weather changes.The condensed results of a number of minor papers dealing with subjects which have, in many cases, formed part of the daily routine of observation during the last ten years have also been included. Attention may also be called to the list of remarkable atmospheric occurrences, such as phenomenal gales, snow-storms, auroras, etc., which is contained in the appendix. In presenting this paper my warm thanks must be expressed to Dr Buchan, from whom I received invaluable advice when points of difficulty arose in the reduction of the observations.