ite at nn 
Tue WEATHER OF 1906. 73 
amount, and also ten days. From the 30th of March to the 18th 
of April there was a very dry period, with anti-cyclonic condi- 
tions, when not more than one-hundredth of an inch fell, a 
circumstance which proved exceedingly favourable for the seed 
time. And we must all remember the splendid weather in 
September which followed the rains of August, and by its dry- 
ness and comparative warmth proved equally favourable to 
harvest operations, in this district at least, although in the 
northern parts of Scotland, where the crops were later in ripen- 
ing, the same advantage was not enjoyed. In connection with 
this part of the subject, some notice should be taken of the 
snowstorm which marked the closing weeks of the year, which 
was undoubtedly the severest snowstorm experienced in this 
country for many years past. It was accompanied by strong 
winds, mostly from a north-westerly direction, which caused 
much drifting and blocking of railways and roads, and by a very 
low temperature, the lowest indeed of the year, which greatly 
aggravated the inconveniences and dangers which it involved. 
And one of its most lamentable results was the railway accident 
near Arbroath, in which 22 persons lost their lives, and many 
more were more or less injured. 
Hygrometer.—The readings of the dry and wet bulb ther- 
mometers for the year, by which the relative humidity of the 
atmosphere is ascertained, were mean dry bulb, 48.5 deg., almost 
exactly the same as the mean temperature of the year, which was 
48.3 deg., and mean wet 45.4 deg., from which it follows that 
the mean temperature of the dew point comes out at 41.4 deg., 
and the relative humidity at 79—saturation being equal to 100. 
Thunderstorms were comparatively rare during the year. 
But I noted at the time that there was one on the 11th May, 
which lasted about half-an-hour, with the accompaniment of a 
shower of hail, and another on the 29th of the same month from 
1 to 2 p.m., which was repeated after 5 p.m., with heavy rain. 
But by far the severest thunderstorm of the year was from 6 to 
8 p.m. on the 2d of August, which was accompanied by the 
heaviest rainfall of the year, the amount which fell on that day 
having been 1.70 in., which is equivalent to 170 tons of water per 
acre. There was thunder and lightning in some parts of the 
country in connection with the storm of the last week of Decem- 
