148 REMARKS ON RAINFALL. 



A fall of over 2in. in one day was only noted once during 

 the year, and this occurred at Winterbourne Herringston on 

 26th May, where 2 - 60in. was registered. On the same day 1 - 91 

 fell at Dorchester Waterworks, 1-23 at Upwey, in a thunder- 

 storm of about 2 hours duration, and 1*17 at Chedington 

 Court, which were the maxima falls of the year at those places. 

 The heavy rain Avas, however, local, and it did not extend to 

 the eastward beyond Puddletown, nor did it reach Portland. 



The heaviest and most widespread rain of the year fell on 

 November 1 1th, thirty-five stations recording the rain of that 

 day as the heaviest of the year. 



At seven stations no fall amounting to lin. occurred on any 

 day. 



A severe and sudden storm of wind, accompanied by light- 

 ning, was reported at Lyme Regis on 29th July, but the rain- 

 fall amounted only to 0'17 on that day. 



An interesting table has been sent by the Rev. J. Cross 

 (given in the following notes), which contains a weekly state- 

 ment of the height of the water standing in a tube well at 

 Sturminster Marshall from 1st April, 1910, to 1st January, 

 1912. It shows that at the beginning of 1911, after the heavy 

 rain which occurred in the last three months of the previous 

 year, the water stood at 4ft. Sin. from the top of the tube, 

 but in consequence of the small amount of rain during the 

 first nine months of 1911, the water gradually receded, with 

 hardly any check, until the end of October, by which time 

 the water had fallen to 9ft. 9in. from the top of the tube. By 

 January 1st of the present year the heavy rainfall in October, 

 November, and December, 1911, had restored the water to 

 the level at which it stood in the previous January, making 

 up the loss incurred during the drought of last year. 



Owing to the regretted deaths of Admiral Stopford and 

 Mrs. Pretor, the tables for this year contain no returns from 

 Shroton and Wyke Regis, but on the other hand several 

 new returns appear for the first time, namely from Ranston, 

 Gussage St. Michael, Witchampton, Wimborne Westfield 

 and Royston, Creech Grange, and Abbotsbury Castle. 





