XI. 



EEPORT OX THE RAINFALL IN HERTFORDSHIRE IX 



THE YEAR 1895. 



Ey John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.Met.Soc. 



Read at TFatford, 2Ut April, 1896. 



ALTHoroH the number of our rainfall stations is the same as in 

 the last few years, namely 40, there are a few alterations in the 

 staif of observers. The usual return has not been received from 

 Oaklands, "Watford, owing to the record being incomplete, and 

 Cheshuut College disappears from our list, the observer there 

 having left the neighbourhood. On the other hand we have, a new 

 station at Northchurch, near Berkhamsted, and another at Saw- 

 bridgeworth. The latter is an important acquisition, for it is in 

 the river-district of the Stort, which has hitherto been entirely 

 unrepresented. The number of daily records received is 33, which 

 is two less than that for the previous year, but the same as that for 

 the year 1893. 



Particulars of the 40 rainfall stations, and the monthly and total 

 rainfall and number of days in the year 1895 on which at least 

 0-01 inch of rain fell, or, when the measurement is taken to 

 thousandths of an inch, 0-005 inch, are given in Tables I and II, 

 pp. 111-113. 



The following supplementary table (Table III) gives sis other 

 records of the rainfall in the year. Two of these are the records of 

 additional gauges at Rothamsted, and four are taken from ' British 

 RainfaU, 1894.' 



Table III. — Supplemeijtaiiy xo Tables I a>'d II. 



The mean rainfall in the county in the year 1895 was 24-91 

 inches. This is 1-83 inch below the average for the decade 

 1880-89, and 1-52 inch below that for the half-century 1840-89. 

 The year was, therefore, rather a dry one. The number of wet 

 days was considerably less than usual, the average throughout the 

 county being 1 1 per cent, less than the mean during the 20 years 

 1870-89. 



