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August.— The mean temperature was 0^7 less than the 

 average, the deficiency being greatest in western and north- 

 western districts, where at several places it nearly amounted to 

 2°, At places in the extreme east, from Berwick to Xorth 

 Unst, the temperature was relatively higher, being indeed as 

 high as the average in some districts. 



The rainfall was 0'60 inch above the average. It was slightly 

 under the mean in Shetland, parts of Caithness, Forfar, Perth, 

 Fife, East Lothian, Berwick, Selkirk, and Roxburgh ; but every- 

 where else it w^as above the average. Thus in Perthshire and 

 the south-eastern counties, the weather of August was season- 

 ably warm and drier than usual. 



September. — The mean temperature w^as nearly the average 

 on the mean of the whole country, but it was very unequally 

 distributed. In Shetland and Orkney, and over an extensive 

 district marked off by a line from the Mull of Cantyre passing 

 thence through Rothesay, Ochtertyre, St Andrews, Edinburgh, 

 Wolfelee, and Girvan, temperature w^as above the average, the 

 excess in no case amounting to a degree. In other districts it 

 was below the average, but in no case was the deficiency as 

 much as a degree. 



The rainfall was about half an inch below the average. It 

 w^as above the mean in Shetland, Orkney, between the Gram- 

 pians and the Moray Firth, and the southern counties from 

 Berwick to Wigtown, the excess being a half more than the 

 average at Keith, Melrose, and Wolfelee. In other districts the 

 rainfall was under the mean, and over large districts very 

 considerably so. The greatest deficiency was in Wester Ross 

 and Skye, where only half the usual falls were recorded. 



October. — The temperature w^as 0"'3 less than the average. 

 The days were relatively warmer than the nights, owing to the 

 less cloud and the large amount of sunshine. The temperatures 

 differed little among the stations from their averages, but 

 generally in the north-east and north it was above the average, 

 but below it in the south and west. 



The rainfall was the tenth of an inch below the average. In 

 the east, from Berwick to Orkney, it was under the mean, the 

 deficiency being greatest in the northern counties from Dundee 

 to Inverness, where less than half the average amount was 

 collected. Elsewhere the rainfall was distributed into irregular 

 ])atches of excess and defect, but in only a few instances did the 

 falls sliow departures from the means greater than a third. 



November. — The temperature of November was tlie average of 

 the month. It was above the mean in Shetland, and to the 

 south of the Grampians, except at the south-westerly stations, 

 where it was slightly below the average. Elsewhere temperature 

 was a little under the mean. The greatest excess was in the 



