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221./ 3rd - 4th Feb. 1951. Barometer continued its headlong fall all evening & night & at 8.50 AM. on Sunday 4th the pen of our barograph was resting on the bottom rim of its revolving cylinder at ca. 27.95 inches (our ancient mercury barometer indicated the same figure!): lifting the pen off the cylinder I inserted a strip of stamp-paper & replaced the pen: about an hour later it fell a further 1/8 inch & then suddenly turned level at 27.9 inches & continued level +/- for some 3 or 4 hours when it again fell & at 4.20 P.M. the under side of the pen was so far as I could see resting on the case of the machine & so could fall no more - at which time the mercury barometer registered 27.74 inches - perhaps the lowest figure I have heard of in Ireland since the great gale of 21-22 Dec. 1894; once since George gave me this present barograph the pen went off the paper & during the years 1910-1945 (?) I had not a barograph in the house. During the night of 3rd-4th Feb. heavy rain & sleet fell, with at times considerable wind & removed most of the remaining snow which had fallen on 2nd Feb., but about 11 AM. the sky cleared & from that till 5 P.M. we had much hot sun & lovely blue sky, with in afternoon occasional skiffs of rain, like melted snow. At 4.30 when I went out to post some letters it was quite mild 222./ 4th Feb 1951, cont. & absolutely windless, as calm as it has been all day. From this calm & sunny sky I assume we are the centre of a very deep depression - or cyclone as it used to be called. At 5 P.M. the cloud drift was from S.SW & very slow: the smoke drift at housetop level was similar. 5th Feb 1951. After a little wind at night a dull drizzly day but quite calm. 6th-10th Feb. No wind, much hot sun, especially on 9th & 10th. frosty nights, a few light showers of rain or hail. Our first Yellow Crocuses opened flowers (3 of them) by path to front gate on 9th after hanging fire for weeks - kept back by frosty nights! 11th Feb. SE wind, heavy rain from 8 AM.; dull & dark. 12th Feb - 17th Feb. 1951. A week of contrasts, brilliant hot sun during days of 13th, 14th & 15th & forenoon of 16th with very hard frost at night, then heavy rain on night of 16th; with sun & snow showers alternating on 17th & ending in snow fall in evening. No wind on 13th to 15, then increasing wind on 16th & strong to gale on 17th. On 13th, went by 2 P.M. bus to Old Bawn & walked to Bohernabreen R.C. Chapel & up hill towards Piperstown to about 1,000 & back to catch 4.10 bus at Old Bawn. The higher hills
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