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60-5°, practically the same as June, instead of being about 2*5° 

 warmer. On the 31st, at Waddon New Road, Croydon, -29 in. 

 fell in five minutes, between 1.55 and 2 p.m., being at the rate 

 of 8*18 in. per hour. 



August. 



The weather was practically the same as that of July, being 

 very wet, cold, and sunless, with strong winds during the last 

 10 days. The rainfall was the heaviest August fall at Kew since 

 1881, and was 1-9 in. above the past 30 years mean. At Bed- 

 dington and Wallington it was the heaviest August rainfall since 

 the observations were commenced. The highest maximum in 

 the shade occurred on the 14th, and was at Kew 73-6°, at Bed- 

 dington 75-0°, and at Wallington 74-6°. 



September. 



The month was fairly dry and fine, a great contrast to the 

 two previous months, and, beginning with the 8th, there was a 

 week of really hot weather, during which the maximum in the 

 shade for the year was reached. The rainfall was very small, 

 the average for September at Greenwich being 2-41 in., an 

 amount which has not been reached since 1885. The harvest, 

 though in places rather poor, was on the whole got in in a better 

 condition than was at first anticipated. 



October. 



An exceedingly wet, stormy, and wild month, with no frost 

 until the 81st. The mean temperature 50*5°, at Beddington, 

 was higher than that of any October since 1886. The rainfall 

 was exceedingly heavy. At Keston (Tower Fields) it was the 

 wettest month since the commencement of the observations, and 

 likewise at Beddington, the next wettest October being in 1882. 

 At Kew it was the wettest October since 1880, when 5-94 in. fell, 

 and, with this exception, it was the largest October total since 

 1865. At Kew, although so much rain fell, yet the amount of 

 bright sunshine was 4 per cent, above the average, 110 hours 

 being recorded, which gives a mean percentage of 33. 



November. 

 The opening week was dry and cold, with easterly, but on 

 the 9th there was a return of stormy wet weather and S.W. 

 winds. A heavy gale, extending over a wide area and doing 

 great damage, occurred on the 11th, and the barometer went 

 down to a lower point, 28-31 in. at 11.80 a.m., than any touched 

 since Dec. 8th, 1886. At Wallington the barometer fell from 

 30-636 in. reduced, &c., on the 5th to 28-522 in. reduced, &c., 

 on the 11th, a fall of over 2 in. in six days. During the week, 



