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Dr. Crumpe’s January 1795 Weather report

Posted on January 1, 2014March 13, 2019 by Sharon Slater

Dr Samuel Crumpe born in Rathkeale in 1766. He studied medicine in Edinburgh, Scotland.

He returned to Limerick in 1788. He worked in the Lock and Fever Hospital, known as St. John’s Hospital today. This hospital was founded only eight years earlier in 1780 by Lady Lucy Pery Harstonge.

Crumpe married Susanna Ingram in 1792 in Limerick county. They had a son (who did not live past infancy) and a daughter named Susanna after her mother.

On the 25 June 1792 Crumpe became a Freeman of Limerick which allowed him the right to vote in the city.

Dr. Crumpe’s work on opium provided an experimental basis for classifying the drug as a stimulant rather than a narcotic.

He died on the 27 January 1796 aged 29 of typhus, which it is believed he contracted from a patient.

He is buried in St. Mary’s Cathedral Graveyard.

The following is an extract from Dr Samuel Crumpe’s diary of 1795 in which he kept track of the weather each day of that year, monitoring the barometer reading, wind direction, thermostat reading (from March onwards) and general remarks.

The temperatures given are in Fahrenheit. 50 degrees Fahrenheit equals 10 degrees Celsius.

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Jan – Feb – Mar – Apr – May – Jun – Jul – Aug – Sep – Oct – Nov – Dec


The following are the entries from his weather diary of 1795 for January.

DateBarometerThermostatWindRemarks
01 Jan 179529.9No ReadingEDry, slight frost
02 Jan 179530.2No ReadingEDry, slight frost
03 Jan 179530.2No ReadingEDry, slight frost
04 Jan 179530.3No ReadingEDry, slight frost
05 Jan 179530.2No ReadingEDry, slight frost
06 Jan 179530.3No ReadingEDry, slight frost
07 Jan 179530.2No ReadingEDry, slight frost
08 Jan 179530.1No ReadingEDry, slight frost
09 Jan 179530.2No ReadingEDry, slight frost
10 Jan 179530.2No ReadingEDry, slight frost
11 Jan 179530.1No ReadingEDry, slight frost
12 Jan 179529.9No ReadingSEWet
13 Jan 179529.5No ReadingSEWet
14 Jan 179529.7No ReadingEDry Frost
15 Jan 179530.2No ReadingEDry Frost
16 Jan 179529.9No ReadingEDry Frost
17 Jan 179529.9No ReadingNEDry slight snow
18 Jan 179529.6No ReadingSEDry
19 Jan 179529.6No ReadingEDry
20 Jan 179529.6No ReadingEDry, hard frost
21 Jan 179529.9No ReadingEDry, hard frost
22 Jan 179529.9No ReadingNEDry, hard frost
23 Jan 179529.8No ReadingNEDry, hard frost
24 Jan 179529.8No ReadingSDry, slight thaw
25 Jan 179529.8No ReadingSEDry, heavy snow at night
26 Jan 179529No ReadingESleet, with high wind, rain
27 Jan 179529No ReadingNWDry, thaw
28 Jan 179529.8No ReadingNESnow
29 Jan 179529.8No ReadingNEFrost, dry
30 Jan 179529.8No ReadingEFrost
31 Jan 17952905No ReadingSEWet

You can find the Weather Reports for other months in 1795 here.

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