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TABLE II. 
Numsper or Rainy Days ar Watuineron, Surrey. 
Feb.|Mar./Apr.|May|Jun.|July|Aug.|Sep.| Oct.|Nov.|Dec.| Year. 
Average of | Jan. 
10 years |—— 
1891-1900 | 18 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 15 | 12 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 164 
1903 ....| 17 | 12 | 19 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 14] 19 | 15 | 25 | 20 | 13 | 193 
1904 ....| 24} 21/17] 13/18] 8| 10] 9/ 15|17| 17 | 21 | 190 
TABLE III. 
Noumper or Rainy Days at GREENwicH OpsERvAToRY, Kent. 
Average of | Jan.|Feb.|Mar. Apr.|May/Jun.|July|Aug.|Sep.| Oct.|Nov.|Dec.| Year. 
10 years. |_| | |_| _ |_| _ |_| | |\_—— 
1891-1900} 16 | 12 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 12 | 16] 15 | 16 | 163 
1903 ....| 16 | 11 | 18 | 12 | 16] 11} 13 | 18 | 16 |] 27 | 15 | 11 | 184 
1904 ....| 24 | 20] 15 | 12) 18}; 8] 11/10] 13] 17] 11 | 21 | 180 
TABLE IV. 
Numper or Rainy Days at Reicate Hint, Surrey. 
Average of | Jan. Feb.|Mar. Apr.|May/Jun.|July|Aug.|Sep.| Oct. Nov.[Dee.| Year. 
10 years |_——|——|— | |__| —_| —_|—__|—_|—_ |__| ___-__ 
1891-1900| 18 | 13 | 14 | 11] 11 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 17 | 16 | 19 | 169 
1903 ....| 22 | 14] 21} 13 | 13 | 138 / 15 | 20 | 17 | 23 | 15 | 11 | 197 
W904... P18) PBT 16 | 1 16 8 | 9} 11 | 12} 15 | 13 | 18 | 168 
In considering these three tables, it will be at once seen that 
the Wallington and Greenwich tables are in many respects 
similar, whilst the Reigate Hill table is different. It is very 
evident that, from the number of rainy days both at Wallington 
and Greenwich, the relative falls must be much smaller. The 
only anomalous reading is that of November at Greenwich, 
which gives a total of no less than six days smaller than 
Wallington. When, however, we come to consider the Reigate 
- Hill record, we have an entirely different state of circumstances. 
The yearly number of rainy days is actually one below the 
average, and no less than twenty-nine below 1903. It is very 
difficult to account for this, though possibly owing to the station 
being situated on the escarpment of the North Downs, though 
not at the highest point, the slighter rains were driven over the 
station, thereby causing a loss of rainy days, but not affecting 
the aggregate amount of fall by much. In studying the in- 
dividual months, it will be noticed that both at Wallington and 
Greenwich there were in January and December a large number 
of rainy days, whilst at Reigate Hill the number was only about 
