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thunderstorms were recorded, hardly any rain fell. Bright 

 sunsliine was greatly in excess of the average, the highest per- 

 centage being 56 at Stornoway, and the lowest, 24, at Deerness. 



September 1899.— The characteristic features of the weather of 

 this month were a rather low mean temperature, heavy rainfall, 

 and a deficiency of sunshine. The mean temperature was 51°'9, 

 or 0°-9 under the average, Dundee being the warmest station, 

 with a mean of 55 M, and Braemar the coldest, the average being 

 48°-l. The cold was pretty evenly distributed over the country. 

 The mean rainfall was 30 per cent, above the average, and the 

 number of rainy days was singularly large, having been only once 

 exceeded in this month, viz., in 1872. The rainfall was dis- 

 tributed in a very capricious manner, being more than double 

 the average at places in Orkney, Caithness, and the Outer 

 Hebrides, as much as 11-86 inches falling at Lochbuie. The 

 normal was not greatly exceeded at places to the south of the 

 Grampians, there being even a slight deficiency in the counties of 

 Dumfries, Fife, and Kirkcudbright, Bright sunshine was very 

 generally under the average. 



Abstract of Meteorological Observations made at Sixty-seven 

 Stations of the Scottish Meteorological Society for the Year 

 ending 30th September 1S99, and compared with the Average 

 of the Forty Tears 1856-1895. 



