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the easterly winds blew directly off the sea. The mean rainfall 

 was 23 per cent, in excess of the normal, the only region with 

 any general deficiency being the extreme north of Scotland, In 

 Berwickshire nearly double the average fell. Very heavy rains 

 were experienced from time to time, 2'0 inches, for example, 

 falling at Edinburgh on the 6th, and 2-1 inches at Braemar on 

 the 22nd, while daily falls of an inch or more were of compara- 

 tively common occurrence. Gales were frequent, and did con- 

 siderable damage to the crops. Rainfall varied from 7*3 inches 

 at Glencarron and 7*0 inches at Marchmont and Glenlee to 1*6 

 inches at Peterhead and 1'8 inches at Sumburgh Head. Bright 

 sunshine was considerably above the average in the north, Storno- 

 way recording 183 hours, but there was a great deficiency in the 

 valleys of the Forth and Clyde, Edinburgh having only 79 hours 

 and Glasgow 89 hours. 



September 1900. — The characteristic features of the weather of 

 September were a mean temperature slightly above the average, a 

 mean rainfall closely agreeing with the normal, an unusual excess 

 of winds from the west, and a rather high mean barometric pres- 

 sure. The mean temperature was 53°*8, being highest, 56° -3, at 

 Cally, and lowest, 50 o, 4, at Benquhat. The distribution of tem- 

 perature was in close agreement with the normal everywhere, the 

 excess being more decided in the south in situations sheltered 

 from the prevailing westerly winds than at exposed places facing 

 the Atlantic. The mean rainfall was 3 3 inches, being 8 per cent, 

 under the normal. In the west and north of Scotland it was in 

 many places nearly double the normal ; but barely half the average 

 quantity fell in the north-east of Aberdeenshire and in the valley 

 of the Tweed. The lai'gest rainfalls were 9 5 inches at Laudale, 

 8*8 inches at Lochbuie, and 87 inches at Glencarron, and the 

 smallest, 1*1 inch, at Montrose and Broomlands. Bright 

 sunshine was below the average in the north and west, but 

 there was a rather decided excess in Berwickshire. Over the 

 country, as a whole, the values were in close accordance with 

 the normal. 



