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01 -THE BEPORT OF THE METEOROLOGICAL SUB- 

 COMMITTEE FOB 1890. 

 Prepared by the Hon. Sec. F. C. Bayard, F. R. Met. Soc. 

 (Bead February 11th, 1891.) 



The arrangements for observing the daily rainfall round 

 Croydon have been successfully carried out on the same plan 

 L kst year. The year commenced with a staff numbermg 

 45 observers, superintendmg 53 stations, as against 88 observers 

 Ind 4Tstatons^in 1889, and 31 observers and 84 stations m 

 1888: No stations have been discontinued or moved during the 



^'Appendix I. to this Beport contains a list of the observers 

 with particulars relating to the stations and £Jgf.- ^ ^he 

 Ttations with the asterisk prefixed were admitted after the 

 commencrment of the yearf and the four with the double 

 TsSk are stations which sent in reports in the previous year 



Appendix II. contains the tables of daily ramfaU issued 

 monthly, and subsequently stereotyped. 



Appendix III. gives the monthly rainfall of the five other 



"^tppendix IV. gives a record of all falls of rain of 1 inch and 

 iiDwards m the 24 hours, extracted from Appendix 11. 

 ^And, finally, Appendix V. contains general notes on the charac- 

 ipristic features of every month. -, , n -u 



The method of grouping the stations into districts adopted by 

 the Sub-Committee seems on thewhole to have given satisfaction. 

 The Sub-Committee welcome the accession of South Norwood 

 and of one other station on the high ground at Banstead The 

 Sub-Committee much regret the absence o stations, with daily 

 records, at Botley Hill, Betsom H.ll. Knockholt, and Enth 



With reference to the rainfall of the year, if we take as a basis 

 for comparison, the records of the stations m the districts for 

 which we can obtain an average of ten years and over, it would 

 Teem to have been very deficient. The deficiency varies from 

 5 in. at Surbiton on a 35 years' average to 1-5 in. at Sutton on 

 a 10 years' average. This reveals a somewhat serious state ot 

 things! for, combmed with the deficiency of 1889, the amount of 

 ia n that has fallen over the district in the last wo years is 

 probably at least 3 in. less than the average amount over a long 

 series of years. This want of rain, unless the sprmg and summer 

 should turn out to be very wet, appears likely to cause a great 

 defic ency in the water supply of the dis rict, and the Sub- 

 Committee cannot impress too strongly on the water authorities 



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