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on any one day in each month. To give this here would occupy 

 too much space, but it may be interesting to know at what station 

 there was the greatest fall in 24 hours in each month, with the day 

 of the month on which it occurred and the amount of the fall. 



Jan. 21. — Berkhampstead (Iligli 



Street) MO 



Feb. 14.— Rickmansworth 0-66 



Mar. 12.— St. Albans 0-95 



Apl. 13.— Stevenage 1-00 



May 22.— Hemel Hempstead ... 0-39 

 June 15. — Buntinrford 0-68 



July 31. — Berkhampstead 



(Ashlyns) 0-94 



Aug. 15. — Harpenden 0-78 



Sept. 5.— St. Albans 1-43 



Oct. 10. — Rickmansworth 59 



Nov. 27.— Tring 0-90 



Dec. 23.— Hitchin 1-05 



The wettest day in each month is in nearly every instance here 

 shown — a fact which may be proved by taking all the dates given 

 in the 1 8 returns as those on which the greatest depth of rain fell 

 in each month, and giving under each date the number of times 

 the date occurs — giving, that is to say, the number of stations at 

 which, on any day, the greatest amount of rain is recorded to have 

 fallen. The highest number given will therefore indicate the day 

 on which a heavy fall of rain was most general over the county ; 

 and it will be seen that in only two months (August and November) 

 was this not the day on which the greatest rainfall occurred at 

 any one station. These days are indicated by italics. 



January — 2\st, the wettest dmj at 17 stations ; 22nd, at 1. 



February— 13th at 1 ; \ith at 12 ; 15th at 3 ; 22nd at 2. 



March— 12i!/t at 10* ; 27th at 7 ; 28th at 1. 



April— 10th at 4* ; 11th at 1 ; Uth at 9* ; 14th at 2 ; 18th at 1 ; 29th at 1. 



May— 22«f; atU; 23rd at 1 ; 24th at 2 ; 25th at 2. 



June— 15<A at 15 ; 22nd at 2 ; 23rd at 1. 



July— 7th at 1 ; 11th at 1 ; 30th at 1 ; ZUt at 15. 



August— 2nd at 1 ; 3rd at 1 ; 4th at 9 ; loth at 5; 18th at 1 ; 19th at 1. 



September— 4th at 2 ; bth at \o ; 28th at 1. 



October— 5th at 1 ; 6th at 2 ; lOth at 10 ; 11th at 1 ; 12th at 3 ; 13th at 1. 



November— 11th at 8 ; 12th at 2 ; 26th at 1 ; 27^/; at 6 ; 28th at 1. 



December— 2nd at 2 ; 7th at 6 ; 8th at 1 ; 2ird at 8 ; 27th at 1. 



"We have seen that December was the wettest month in the year, 

 and September the next. The 5th of September seems to have 

 been the wettest day in the year, for the fall exceeded one inch at 

 10 stations, while on no other day did the fall reach an inch at 

 more than one station. The amounts exceeding an inch on this 

 day were :— at Holly Bank, Watford— M 3 ; Oaklands, Watford— 

 1-08; St. Albans— 1-43; Rothamsted— 1-18 ; Hemel Hempstead 

 — 1-34; High Street, Berkhampstead— 1-22 ; Ashlyns, Berkhamp- 

 stead— 1-33 ; Welwyn— 1-27 ; Hitchin— M2 ; and lloyston— 1-15. 



I have endeavoured in this report to express, as brietiy as possible, 

 the main features brought out by the returns which have been 

 communicated to me, and I have drawn no comparisons with previous 

 years or with other districts. To compare our rainfall witli that of 

 other counties the record of a single year would not sulHce, and to 

 compare the rainfall of 1876 Avitli that of previous years we have 



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