| Description | Daily meteorological records from Montserrat, the British Overseas Territory. Usually three or four sets of observations each day; the times vary, but most often at 6.00am, 10.00am, 4.00pm, and 10.00pm. There is an interuption in the sequence, with no observations for the period 25 September-3 October: according to a note [p.2] 'Serious indisposition prevented the Journal from being continued to the end of the month'. Columns for date and time of observations, barometer, thermometer and general weather remarks. The table for October 1839 has columns for wind direction and strength, and 'Clouds &c'.
Headed [p.1]: 'Meteorological observations made at Plymouth Montserrat for the Month of September 1839', and similarly [p.3] 'for the Month of October'. Signed [p.2 and p.6] by Francis Burke, the latter dated 8 November 1839. Various notes, including on the barometer. With an extended note on a ship diverted by a hurricane [pp.5-6], commencing: 'P.S. A large french Schooner from Porto Rico bound to Martinique - called the "Josephine" called here on the 3rd Novr. and reports that when between St. Kitts and St. Barts on the 26th Octr, a gale came on from the South - that standing to the S.W. it increased and blew a Hurricane...' |