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year it held the second. In olden times fine weather in this month was held to be 
most prejudicial, 
‘All the months in the year 
Curse a fair Februeer.” 
“*The Welchman had rather see his dam on the bier 
‘Than to see a fair Februeer.” 
According to the experience of Mr. Isbell the monthly means in Hereford 
for the last ten years would range as follows :—lst September, 2nd January, 3rd 
October, 4th July, 5th December, 6th November, 7th February, 8th August, 9th 
May, 10th March, 11th June, and 12th April. 
The amount of rain that has fallen in the year has been very unequally 
distributed. In the first four months there fell 8°45; in the next four months 
11°22; and in the last four months 16°40 inches. If the months are ranged 
according to the number of rainy days it will be found that they follow thus :— 
March, April, December, February, May, August, June, July, September, 
November, October, and December. This order presents to us this strange 
phenomenon. The months in which the heaviest amount of rain fell had the 
fewest rainy days; and this rule of inverse ratio obtains with almost unfailing 
exactness throughout the whole twelve months. The driest months are thus the 
months in which occurred the most rainy days. 
TABLE A. 
Comparison of the mean Monthly Rainfall in 1875, with the mean Monthly 
Rainfall in previous years. 
1875. | 1874. | 1873. 
ANUATY Ue evscettcs es ess ct 4°14 2°60 3°44 
SHEDEUAIY: (Sc cos aeciers.:0s 2°03 3°00 1°45 
March: inisccasscstetwesis: 1°08 0°93 3°15 
AaUEl eis MsaclsCeatace cstesbe te 1:20 1°74 0°98 
VIA Vi ccnsds . sonpceaenane teers 2°68 ical; 2°14 
SENOW ssasccneaccsreceesecare: 3°09 0:91 2°83 
OMY wtacilesce paesecteosees 2°91 0°93 2°60 
PATS bite Seca davon thd 2°54 2°85 3°29 
September...............00. 3°68 4:27 Ib7 
October ....-5..5..ccneran.. 6:07 2°83 1°84 
November 506 2°58 1°93 
December 1°59 2°38 0°65 
THE GREATEST FALL IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. 
There exists little difficulty in dealing with the past year in naming the day 
on which occurred the heaviest daily rainfall in our country. In many parts of 
the country violent storms and terrific gales broke out on the 14th of November, 
but the most violent storms and gales appear to have burst out on the 19th of that 
month, and to have caused in some localities almost irreparable damage to shipping 
and houses and property. The path of this violent storm is not easily to be traced, 
but from the accounts published in the Times, it would appear that at North 
Shields, Hull, Cardigan, St. Andrews, Aberdeen, Hastings, and in the valley of 
