NOTES ORIGINAL AND SELECTED 



205 



Total 



Mean for the Year 



49-10 



Rain fell on 128 days ; heaviest rainfall in 24 hours, 146 on July 23rd. 



Danbury. — The Rev. J. Bridges Plumptre, Rector of Danbury, reports: — 

 ' The total for the year shows that we have had about the average amount of 

 rain, and yet the number of days on which rain fell is by no means high. 

 From the point of view of the rainfall, I think that last year may be marked 

 as a favourable one, so far as this locality is concerned. 



The gauge is one foot above the ground, and 365 feet above sea-level ; the 

 diameter of funnel five inches : — 



Total . . 22-96 — — 151 



During the year 1899 there were three absolute droughts, viz. : (i) 



Fe-b. i8th to March 7th, 18 days ; (2) May 25th to June 17th, 24 days; (3) 



Nov. nth to Nov. 30th, 20 days. 



The total rainfall is exactly seven inches more than in 1898. 



Chelmsford. — Mr. F. Chancellor sends the monthly totals for rainfall at 



Chelmsford. The total for the year (1899) was nearly half an inch above the 



average : — 



