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Gordon Castle to Berwick ; but in these cases the excess no- 

 where amounted to a degree. On the other hand, temperature 

 was from 0'"5 to V below the average at all inland situations 

 from Loch ISTess to the Cheviots. The distribution of the rain- 

 fall was very unequal, being about a third under the average 

 over a small district near the mouth of the Tweed, and in all 

 northern districts to the north and north-west of Strathspey. 

 In all other parts of the country more than the average rain 

 fell, particularly over the district marked off by a line drawn 

 from the mouth of the Tay to Ayr, and thence round by Cars- 

 phairn and Bowhill to Yester, the excess at Wanlockhead being 

 176, and at Lanark and Edinburgh 150 per cent, above the 

 average of April. Thus in the extreme north the weather was 

 unusually warm and dry, but in the inland districts of the south 

 very wet and somewhat colder than usual. 



I^'Lay. — Temperature was slightly above the average from 

 Culloden northward, over Orkney and Shetland, and along the 

 west coast as far south as MulL It was also above the average 

 over eastern districts lying between the Grampians and the 

 Firth of Forth, the excess being from 1° to V'o. In other parts 

 of the country it was colder than the average, the lowest tem- 

 perature being experienced south of the Forth ; Edinburgh, for 

 example, being 2\ and Lanark and Stobo 1*6' colder than the 

 average. The rainfall, except in a few spots in the west, was 

 everywhere under the mean, the amounts varying from a fourth 

 to two-thirds short of the average of May. Hence in Strath- 

 more the weather of May may be described as having been drier 

 and warmer than usual, and from Mid-Lothian to Upper Kiths- 

 dale and Annandale drier and colder. 



June. — Temperature still continued above the average from the 

 Firth of Forth to the Grampians, and the area of high tempera- 

 ture extended west through Perthshire, south to Eothesay, then 

 west to BaiTahead, and north to Shetland, the greatest excess 

 being 1°"6 at Pitlochrie, and 2° in Skye and the Uists. The 

 weather was from 0'*5 to V'3 colder than the avemge over all 

 districts draining into the Moray Firth, aud in the valleys of 

 the Dee and Don, and also over the whole of the south of Scot- 

 land. The rainfall was above the average in two districts, the 

 one including Sutherland and Koss-shire, the excess at Loch- 

 broom being 54 per cent.; and the other Aberdeenshire aud part 

 of Strathspey, the rainfall at Cluny Castle being fully double the 

 usual fall of Jiuie. Elsewliere it was ])elow the avera^je, the 

 greatest (a lialf to three-fourths short of the average) being in 

 inland situations from Al)erfeldy to Drumlanrig and liowliill. 

 Thus over the wliole of the W(;st the weather of June was 

 wanner than usual, with a rainfall only slightly in excess of the 

 mean; from Gordon Castle to Inverness colder aud drier; over 



