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The above table places the drought before the eye for over a period of ten 

 weeks. It should be observed that the places range themselves very differently in 

 the two tables. This is due to the great difference in the average. Thus we see 

 that Manchester, where the drought is and has been serious, has received much 

 more rain than either Hastings or Eastbourne, where the drought was most 

 severe, but the deficiency at Manchester heads the list. We see in this strange 

 presentment that while Manchester received four times the rainfall of Eastbourne, 

 yet the deficiency at Manchester is double that of the latter place, this being due 

 to the heavy average at Manchester for the period, and the light average at 

 Eastbourne. I woidd tlierefore suggest that a period of ten weeks should be 

 taken in order to determine a drought, and if in this period between three and 

 four inches of rain fell it be called a light drought, if only between two and three 

 inches fell to constitute a drought, but if between one and two inches a severe 

 drought, and the words " the great drought " to apply only when the rainfall falls 

 below one incii in ten weeks. 



