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THE observations made last winter by Mr. Thorlacius, observer for the Scottish Meteorological Society at Stykkisholm, Iceland, have been received by the Society, and they are of the greatest interest in connection with the unexampled mild weather which prevailed in this country for the five months ending March. The mean pressures, for these five months, at 32° and sea level, were respectively 29.201, 29.140, 29.295, 29.471, and 29.258 inches, the mean of these months being thus only 29.273 inches. In London the mean of the same months was 30.123 inches, or 0.850 inch higher than that of Stykkisholm. The means for these two places for the twenty-four years ending with 1880 are for London 29.948 inches, and Stykkisholm 29.552 inches, the difference being 0.396 inch, or less than half the difference during the winter of 1881–82. The greatest difference occured in January, the mean pressure for which month in London was 30.365 inches, and at Stykkisholm 29.295 inches. Pressure in the north-west of Iceland was thus 1.070 inch less than in London.
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The Meteorology of Iceland During the Winter and Spring of 1881–82. Nature 26, 322 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026322a0
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