114 RAINFALL IN DORSET. 



day. Our rainfall was only r2oin. in the two storms, at 

 Bloxworth Rectory I'og'm. The lightning and thunder were 

 quite appalling. On Thursday, September the yth, the severest 

 thunderstorm that has been felt at Kingston for years passed 

 over the village. The morning was hot and close, and about 

 one o'clock a terrific storm broke right over the village. It 

 came up without the slightest warning. The rain fell in torrents, 

 and the hailstones at Muston were as large as marbles. A flash 

 of lightning struck a chimney on a house, splintered a large 

 beam in the ceiling, passed down the chimney, broke the china 

 in the sitting room, and passed through the kitchen and out of 

 the door. Throughout the whole storm, which only lasted an 

 hour, the sun was shining on Bere Wood, and at Bere Regis 

 itself hardly any rain fell. W. A. N., in Bere Regis and Winter- 

 bourne Kingston Parish Mag., Aug. and Oct., 1899. 



BLOXWORTH RECTORY. Rainfall in November was on 

 8 days 4*6oin., falling from 3rd to 9th inclusive. On the 3rd 

 i '5 2111., on 9th roSin. Heavy thunderstorm on September 6th 

 from 6 to 9 a.m. A small apple tree in my orchard was struck 

 and the bark ripped off; much larger and taller apple trees were 

 round this one on all sides from 20 to 3 oft. off, but none were 

 touched. 



BROADWINDSOR VICARAGE. May : Strong dry easterly winds 

 till loth. July 2 1 st: Thunder; 22nd: Thunderstorm nearly all 

 night. September 5th : Thunderstorms evening and night. 

 October 2yth : Steady rain whole day. December nth: Snow 

 followed by rain ; 1 3th : Snow. 



CHALBURY RECTORY. Highest temperature 82 on August 

 3rd. Lowest 22 on March 2ist, 22nd, and December i3th and 

 1 4th. Only one fall of rain in the year exceeded an inch, namely, 

 on November 3rd ; but there was scarcely any cessation of the 

 fall till late in the afternoon of November 4th ; so the continuous 

 downpour amounted to 2'i3in. 



CHEDDINGTON. On the night of August 3rd from 9 till 

 ii o'clock very heavy thunder was heard, the lightning being 

 brilliant and continuous. On June 5th and 6th, July igth, and 



