186 RAINFALL IN DORSET. 



Chedington Court. Upwards of 2in. was also registered on 

 that day at seven other stations, viz., at Charmouth, Lyme 

 Regis, Broadwindsor, Blackdown House, Leigh Vicarage, 

 Beaminster, Fleet Street and Vicarage, and Melbury Gardens ; 

 but the heavy rain was confined to the Western and Northern 

 parts of the county. 



The Eastern districts received their heaviest rain on 12th 

 October, the amounts registered on that day at 18 stations 

 having ranged from 1'lOin. to l'82in. 



At sixteen stations, from Chickerell to Dorchester, and on 

 to Wareham and Bloxworth, the heaviest rain of the year 

 occurred on 27th January, when amounts of lin. to IJin. 

 were registered. A fall of 2'16in. occurred at Sherborne Castle 

 on June 5th, but it appears to have been local. 



Although the year has decidedly been a wet year, there 

 have not been many days of excessive rainfall, and in this 

 respect it has been a contrast to 1909. In that year at the 20 

 stations marked by an asterisk, falls of lin. and over were 

 registered 126 times, whereas in 1910 there were only 70 

 entries of such an amount. 



There was no long drought throughout the year, and 

 although in the month of September the mean total amounted 

 to only 0-27in., this small quantity fell in the middle of a 

 period of about three weeks, which was otherwise rainless. 



OBSERVERS' NOTES ON METEOROLOGICAL 

 PHENOMENA, &c. 



GILLINGHAM. An extraordinary succession of thunder- 

 storms daily from June 5th to 10th inclusive, with heavy 

 rain at times. 



BUCKHORN WESTON. There have been two especial days 

 to which any observer of Nature should call notice, one in 

 July (the precise day has not been recorded), when for about 

 an hour and a half an appalling darkness came over us, with 

 a very heavy bank of clouds, and amid a silence that could 



