REPORT OX THE 



XVII. 



RAINFALL IN HERTFORDSHIRE 

 THE YEAR 1894. 



IX 



By JoHxX HoPKiNsoN, r.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.Met.Soc. 

 Read at Watford, mth March, 1895. 



There has been no change in the staff of our rainfall observers 

 since the previous year. The records for the year 1894 entered 

 in our principal table are therefore the same in number as before, 

 namely 40. The niimber of daily records received is 35, which is 

 two more than that for the previous year. We are still without 

 observers in the districts of the Upper Ivel (Baldock), the Chess, 

 the Upper Colnc (North Mirams), the Brent, and the Stort (Bishop's 

 Stortford and Sawbridge worth). The places mentioned are those 

 where rainfall observers are most required. 



Particulars of the 40 rainfall stations, and the monthly and 

 total rainfall and number of days on which at least O'Ol inch of 

 rain fell, or, when the measurement is taken to thousandths of an 

 inch, 005 inch, are given in Tables I and TI, pp. 133-135. 



The following supplementary table (Table III) gives eight other 

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

 of additional gauges at Rothamsted, and six are taken from ' British 

 Eainfall, 1894.' 



Table- III. — Supplement art to Tables I and II. 



The mean rainfall in the county in the year 1894 was 27-82 

 inches. Tliis is 1-08 inch above the average for the decade 

 1880-89, and 1-39 inch above that for the half-century 1840-89. 

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

 days was very large, the average throughout the county being 

 nearly 14 per cent, greater than the mean during the 20 years 

 1870-89. 



The second half of the year was a little more than half as wet 

 again as the first half, 11 -04 ins. of rain falling in the first six 



