Note.—The observations are taken at 9 a.m., except at Redhill, 
Reigate Hill (Nutwood Lodge), Addington (Park Farm), and Brixton 
(8 a.m.), Croydon (Woburn Road) (8.80 a.m.), and Sevenoaks 
(10 a.m.). 
NOTES. 
(February, 1898.) 
The month has been warm, with about an average amount of 
sunshine, but a rather short rainfall. There have been several snow 
showers, that on the 20th being the most severe. The month has 
been very unhealthy, influenza and measles being widely prevalent, 
as also scarlet fever. The rainfall is roughly about two-thirds of the 
average, a condition of things which gives rise to very serious appre- 
hensions as to our water supply. The almond tree flowered at Sidcup 
on the 12th, and at Wallington on the 15th, which is, so far as 
Sidcup is concerned, the earliest date of flowering by sixteen days. 
The relatively cold nights have checked vegetation. At Nutfield rooks 
began to build on the 6th, but left off about the 17th for a few days, 
and then began again on the 28th. At Croydon (Park Hill) the 
maximum thermometer was 50° and above on four days, and below 40° 
on three days; whilst the minimum was below 40° on twenty-four 
days. A solar halo was seen at Upper Gatton and Wallington on 
the 8th. The mean temperature of the month is about 2° above the 
average, and was at Wallington 417°, at Croydon (Whitgift) 41-4°, at 
Croydon (Duppas House) 41°2°, at Chipstead 40°1°, and at Redhill 40°. 
There were recorded at Wallington 61°3 hours of sunlight, which is 
the February average of the ten years 1886-95. 
F. Campseuu-Bayarp, P.R.Met.Soc., 
Hon. Sec. 
