100 



Since 1884 the number of inches and the number of wet days 

 have been as follow : — 



26-95 (?) ; 33-54 (207) ; 39-64 (204) ; 29-74 (185) ; 



2855(193); 3055 (185); 8061 (194); 33-18 (191); 

 30-48 (189) ; 27-38 (165) ; 28-61 (205) ; 32-64 (196) ; 

 32-93 (201) ; 28-82 (196) ; 27-31 (170) ; 31-08 ((169). 



From the above figures it appears that the average yearly fall 

 is 30-75 inches on 190 days. Last year, therefore, we had prac- 

 tically the average amount of rain, but the wet days were 21 few- 

 er than the average. The present year has been more wet than 



1899 so far as it has gone. In January we had 3-56 inches on 

 23 days. The average rainfall in January for 17 years has been 

 2-42 inches on 18 days. The fall of rain at Ingleby Manor is usually 

 greater than at the Vicarage, while the fall at Easby is less. In 

 order to elucidate to some extent the law governing the fall of rain 

 in the neighbourhood we are endeavouring to establish a rain-gauge 

 in the vicinity of Botton Head, the highest point of Eastern 

 Yorkshire. 



April, 1900. Eainfall.— In February we had a greater rain- 

 fall—of course including snow — than we have ever before had in 

 that month since our measurements began. The depth register- 

 ed at the Vicarage was 5-48 inches, which fell on 23 days. The 

 nearest approach to this was the fall of February 1893, when we 

 had 3-23 inches on 16 days, and only in two other years has it 

 exceeded two inches, namely 2-29 inches on 19 days in 1892, 

 and 217 inches on 12 days last year. In February 1891, we 

 had only 0-11 inches of rainfall on 6 days, this being the driest 

 month in 17 years. The average fall in February has been 1-78 

 inches on 14 days. Until this year the largest number of wet 

 days was 20 in 1889. Up to the end of February this year we 

 have had a fall of 9-04 inches on 46 days the average being 4 20 

 inches on 32 days. So that the fall of the first two months of 



1900 has been more than double the average. 



January, 1901. Water borings at Stokesley. — It has been 

 suggested that the results of certain operations in boring for 

 water should be placed on record in the pages of our magazine, 

 and by the kindness of Messrs Carrick, "Wiggins, and Wetherill, 

 who have supplied the following information, we are able to give 

 certain facts which may be of more or less general interest, as 

 showing the results in different parts of the town. Mr. Carrick, 

 whose borings were considerably the deepest has unfortunately 

 met with disappointing results, having left off without finding 

 water. 



