Abnormal Barometrical Disturbances in Yorkshire, in 1883 and 1884

Abstract

The Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol. 36, p. 139, contain the report of a paper read before the Society, Dec, 13, 1883, entitled “Note on a Series of Barometrical Disturbances, which passed over Europe between the 27th and the 31st August, 1883. By Robt. H. Scott, F.R.S., Secretary to the Meteorological Council.” Shortly after the publication of the above paper, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., then Professor of Chemistry in the Yorkshire College, Leeds, wrote to the “Leeds Mercury” the following account of the influence of the Krakatoa Eruption, in the Straits of Sunda, upon barometrical records in Europe, including observations in Leeds. “The last issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society contains a remarkable paper, by Mr. R. H. Scott, F.R.S., the Secretary of the Meteorological Council, on a series of barometrical disturbances which passed over Europe between the 27th and the 31st August, 1883.” “It appears that when the barograms obtained from some sixteen observatories situated in various parts of Europe, from St. Petersburg in the east, to Valentia off the Irish coast, in the west, are compared together, the curves extending from about noon on the 27th to the end of the month are seen to exhibit a series of remarkably sudden depressions and quick recoveries of pressure. These disturbances were not actually synchronous at the various observatories. At about 11 a.m. (Greenwich time) on the 27th there was a sudden increase of pressure, followed by a decrease, at St. Petersburg; similar phenomena were noticed ...