Lengthy series
of observation times show that the total amount
of snow in the Northern Hemisphere has declined in the spring
period and that the melting
of the snow has started earlier in the same
period.
Journals
of observations on the quantity
of rain, and degree
of heat, being
lengthy, confused, and too minute to produce general and distinct ideas, I have taken five years
observations, to wit, from 1772 to 1777, made in Williamsburgh and its neighbourhood, have reduced them to an average for every month in the year, and stated those averages in the following table, adding an analytical view
of the winds during the same
period.