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Autumn as a rule being the wettest season, that there is not 

 much difference between the rainfall of September and that of 

 October ; and this confirms a remark I made in my former paper, 

 that " on an average, one of the two months of September and 

 " October is, comparatively speaking, a wet one, and the other a 

 " dry one. But which is to be wet and which dry is an even 

 "chance looking merely to results." 



The highest mean monthly fall in the results of twenty years 

 is that of January ; and it will be seen again on referring to my 

 former paper, that this same month presented the highest 

 mean fall in the first decade. January, therefore, may well stand 

 as on an average, the wettest month in the year in Bath; 

 though September and October (or one of those months in 

 any single year) may make a near approach to it. 

 : The absolutely wettest month during the whole twenty years 

 was May, 1878, when the fall amounted to 7-060 inches; a 

 remarkable circumstance, May and April being the two months, 

 in which the mean rainfall (nearly the same in each case) is 

 lower than in any other months of the year. In only five instances 

 besides the above did it amount to so much as six inches. 



The absolutely driest month in the whole series was July, 

 1885, when the fall was 0-210 inches. There was no month 

 absolutely without rain. 



. This leaves little more to be said on the present occasion. I 

 have nothing further to state with respect to the temperature, 

 raitifall and humidity, of Bath compared with other places, 

 beyond what I stated in my former paper. Nor need I add 

 anything to what was therein said respecting the general 

 conditions of the Bath climate. I believe the results given in 

 that paper are as a whole correct. Of course the longer the term 

 of years for which the observations are continued, the more 

 ti::ustworthy they become ; while there are anomalous states of 

 weather, in one or other of its aspects, sure to recur from time 

 to time during long periods, which it is of interest to record^ 



