BAINFALL IN nERTFOKDSniRE IN 1896. 



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Distribution of Rainfall throughout the County. — The following 

 table (Table III) gives the meau fall for each mouth 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 III. — Rainfall in the River-disteicts. 



The mean fall in each of the minor river-basins or sub-districts 

 represented, was as follows : — 



ins. 



Lea., 



ins. 



Mimram 25-36 



Beane 26-87 



Rib 26-15 



Ash 26-81 



Stort 31-47 



Upper Lea 27-17 



Lower Lea 25-18 



The total yearly fall ranged from 23-09 inches at Royston to 

 31-47 ins. at Cowicks, Sawbridgeworth ; and the total monthly 

 fall from 0*10 inch at Aldenham House, Elstree, in May, to 

 8-07 ins. at the Red House, Ware, i^n September. The greatest 

 fall in any one day was 1-76 inch at Odsey, on the 12th of 

 September. 



Distribution of the Rainfall in each Month. — The nomenclature 

 used in the following account of the chief falls of rain is the same 

 as in my previous reports, falls of at least i inch being styled 

 considerable, f inch very considerable, 1 inch great, 1^ inch very 

 great, \\ inch heavy, and If inch very heavy. There was no 

 excessive fall (2 inches) in the year. This analysis only applies 

 to the thirty -five stations for which I have returns of the daily 

 rainfall. 



