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absence of tlie Eoyston station. The temperature there was, as 

 a rule, nearly a dej^ree higher than at the other stations, and the 

 rainfall was about two inches less. 



Table III. — Means of CUmatological Observations (with Extremes 

 of Temperature) talcen at Bennington^ Berkhamsted, St. Albans, 

 and New Barnet, during the Year 1899. 



In the following notes on the months, a few observations taken 

 at other places than our four meteorological stations are included. 

 The observations referred to Hertford are those of Mr. W. Clinton 

 Baker, taken at Bayfordbury, 250 feet above sea-level. 



January. — Exceedingly mild, of average humidity, with a bright 

 sky, and a heavy rainfall on a large number of days. The mean 

 temperature was more than 5° above the average, but half a degree 

 lower than it was in the previous year. A bright sky with heavy 

 and fi'equent rain is an unusual conjunction. The excess of 

 temperature was a little more due to the warmth of the days 

 than of the nights. On the evening of the 2nd there was a 

 westerly gale, and at Berkhamsted the mean velocity of the wind 

 for the hour from 8 to 9 p.m. reached 25 miles. The fifteen days 

 8th to 22nd were very warm, the mean temperature being, at 

 Berkhamsted 45°-3, at St. Albans 45°-4, and at Hertford 45°-8 ; 

 giving a mean temperature for the three places of 45°' 5, which is 

 just above that of the spring of this year at our four stations. 

 Eain fell nearly every day up to the 23rd, and there were slight 

 falls of snow on the 2nd and 23rd. On Thursday, the 12th, there 

 was a south-westerly gale, in some places with heav^- rain. Con- 

 siderable damage was done by the wind, the mean velocity of 

 which, at Berkhamsted, reached 28 miles in the hour from 8 to 

 9 p.m. At Hitchin there were chimney-pots and tiles blown down 



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