100 KAINFALL IN HEETFOEDSHIEE IN 1877. 



The days on which the greatest amount of rain in each month at 

 any station is recorded to have fallen are now given, with the 

 number of stations at which this maximum monthly fall occurred. 

 The days when the amount was the maximum fall in the month, 

 as shown above, are indicated by italics. 



January— 3rrf, the ivettest day at 20 stations ; lOtli at 2. 



Febi-uary— 12(!;i aC 3; 13th at 5; 1.5th at 1 ; 19th at 10; 22udatl; 25th at 2. 



March— 3rd at 4 ; 4th at 1 ; 7th at 4 ; 20th at 2* ; 23rd at 2 ; 29/A at 9. 



April— 4th at 3 ; 9/A at 18; 23rd at 1. 



May— nth at 2 ; r2th at 1 ; IQth at 15 ; 18th at 2 ; 20th at 1 ; 31st at 1. 



Jime— 1st at 7 ; 11th at 1 ; 21st at 3 ; 22nd at 1 ; 30//i at 10. 



July— 14th at 17 ; 23rd at 1 ; 25th at 2 ; 3L«.;' at 2. 



August— 8th at 2 ; 21st at 6 ; 25i;/i at 8 ; 26th at 5 ; 27th at 1. 



September— 2nd at 4 ; ?,rd at 14 ; 11th at 2 ; 14th at 2. 



October— 21st at 1 ; 22nd at 1 ; 23rd at 2 ; 25th at 1 ; 2^lh at 17. 



November— 5th at 1 ; 9th at 1 ; 11^/i at 20. 



December— 5th at 1 ; 2%th at 20t ; 30th at 1. 



The days on which a heavy fall of rain was most general over 

 the county are thus clearly shown, and by comparing the above 

 with the previous table some idea of the amount of the fall may be 

 formed. 



January and November have been stated to have been the wettest 

 months in the year. On the 11th of November a fall exceeding 

 one inch occurred at the greatest number of stations during the 

 year. In January, on the other hand, there was no daily fall 

 equal to one inch anywhere, the excess in this month being due to 

 continuous wet weather, rather than to any great downpour. Falls 

 exceeding one inch occurred every month from July to jSTovember ; 

 but on no occasion was a fall equal to one inch recorded during 

 the first half of the year. The following are the falls of an inch 

 or more recorded on the days of maximum monthly fall : — 



July 25— Buntingford, 1-02. 



July 31— Therfield, 1-04. 



August 21— Holly Bank, Watford, Ml ; Oaklands, Watford, 1-00. 



August 25— East Barnet, 1-16. 



September 3 — Kensworth, 1-45; Stevenage, r04; Hitchin, 1-04. 



October 29— St. Albans, Mo. 



Kovember 5 — Ware, 1-40. 



November 11-St. Albans, 1-25; Harpenden, 1-38; Nash Mills, 1-06; Berk- 



hampstead, 1-42; Great Gaddesden, 1-32; Tring, 1-40; Welwyn, 1-00; 



Stevenage, 1*18; Hitchin, 1-31. 



The rainfall in 1877, as in the two previous years, was consider- 

 ably above the average, there having thus been three wet years in 

 succession. From the records of former years I have received, 

 about 26 inches appears to be the average for the county, but 

 records extending as far as ten years back have as yet only been 

 received from three observers. A report on the rainfall of past 

 years cannot therefore yet be prepared. 



* Snow. t Snow and rain. 



