RAINFALL IN HEETFORDSHIKE IN 1895. 



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August lOtli at 1, 13th at 22, 20th at 2, 21st at 11, 22iid at 2, 3rd and 13th 

 at 2. 



September 6tb at all stations. 



October otb at 14, 8th at 25, oth and 8th at 1. 



November 5th at 20, bth at 1, 10th at 3, 15th at 13, 22nd at 1, 2Sth at I, 

 29th at 1. 



December 12th at 2, 14th at 34, 29th at 2, 14th and 24th at 1, 14th and 

 29th at 1. 



The day iu each month on which a heavy fall of rain was most 

 general over the county was therefore — 



Jan. 19th 

 Feb. 1st 

 March 27th 



April 2oth 

 May 17th 

 June 28th 



July 18th 

 Aug. 13th 

 Sept. 6th 



Oct. 8th 

 Nov. 5th 

 Dec. 14th 



The number of wet days in the year (average of 38 gauges) was 

 150, being 18 below the mean for the 20 years 1870-89. Of the 

 total number there were 41 (or 27 °/q) in the winter months, 34 (or 

 23 °/o) in the spring, 37 (or 25 °/q) in the summer, and 38 (or 

 25 °/q) in the autumn. 



The average number of wet days in each month, and the 

 deviation from the mean for the 20 years 1870-89, were as 

 follows : — 



Bistrihution of Rainfall throughout the County. — The following 

 table (Table IV) gives the mean fall for each month and for the 

 year in each of the five river-districts represented, and in the two 

 main hydrographical divisions of the county, the catchment-basins 

 of the Great Ouse and the Thames, and also the difference in the 

 year from the mean for the decade 1880-89. 



Table IV. — Rainfall in the Rivee-disteicts. 



