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) (8.380 a.m.), and Sevenoaks 
(10 a.m.). 
NOTES. 
(September, 1898.) 
The month has been extraordinarily dry, hot, and sunny, and is 
in character very similar to September, 1895. With reference to the 
rainfall, there is in the long record of Greenwich, commencing in 1814, 
only one September with a smaller rainfall, viz. 1865, with +16 in. ; 
and in the Surbiton record, commencing in 1855, September, 1865, is 
the smallest total with °35 in.; whilst in the Wimbledon (Mt. Ararat) 
record, commencing in 1854, September, 1865, has -47 in., a higher 
total than September, 1898. It seems probable that the shade tem- 
perature of the 8th was absolutely unique for September; it was at 
Waddon 93°, at Greenwich 92°1°, at Croydon (Duppas House) 91°, 
at Beddington 90°6°, at Croydon (Waddon New Road) 90°, at Walling- 
ton 88°9°, and at Addington Hills 87:5°; and at Croydon (Waddon 
New Road) the maximum temperature in the shade in a Stevenson 
screen was 80° and above on no less than ten days. The aurora on 
the 9th seems to have been generally observed throughout the district. 
The rainfall is about 14 to 2 inches below the September average, and 
the want of water is becoming most serious. The grass is generally 
burnt up and quite brown, and in some places, as at Keston, the trees 
appear as if scorched by the heat, whilst all green crops are suffering. 
Pears in many places are scarce, and apples are much worm-eaten. 
The mean temperature is nearly 4° above the September average, 
and was at Croydon (Duppas House) 62°, at Chipstead 61-:9°, at 
Wallington 61:3°, and at Waddon 61:1°. There were recorded at 
Wallington 230°5 hours of sunlight, an excess of no less than 70:3 
hours, which is 18 per cent. above the September mean of the ten 
years 1886-95. 
F. Campspevu-Bayarp, P.R.Met.Soc., 
Hon. Sec. 
