| Description | Daily temperature readings, four taken per day at 8,12, 4 and 8 [a.m., midday, and p.m.] using a single thermometer. With two barometrical measurements at 8a.m. and 8p.m., notes on wind direction and strength, and general weather diary comments.
Commencing: 'Weather Observation in Nain on the Coast of Labrador. lies 56 degr. 30 min. north Latitude. from Sept. 11th 1778 to 31 Augt. 1780'.
Summarised as 'Extract of two Meteorological Journals of the Weather, observed in Nain, in 57 degrees North Latitude, and at Okak, in 57 degrees 30', North Latitude, both on the Coast of Labradore. Communicated by Mr. De la Trobe. Philosophical Transactions, v.71, 1781, pp.197-198. |