Remark* on Rainfall of 1911, 



By H. STILWELL, M.R.I. 



3J5HE year 1911 will always be remembered as the 

 year with the hot and dry summer but 

 although the severity of the drought was 

 mostly felt in the months of July, August, 

 and September, that shortage of rain followed 

 an unusually dry period in the first six months 

 of the year, and by the end of September the 

 mean rainfall in Dorset only amounted to 

 13'63in., leaving a deficiency of 20'08in. to be 



made up in the last three months of the year if the mean 



annual fall should be equalled. 



With October a great change in the weather occurred, and 



before the year ended 17'66in. was added to the total, and 



thus the ultimate deficiency of the year only amounted to 



2-42in. 



The rainfall in December was especially heavy, as will be 



seen in the following Tables, and in many places it exceeded 



all previous records. 



