152 REMARKS ON RAINFALL. 



LYME REGIS, HOLME CLEVE. July 29th a storm broke 

 here with tropical suddenness and violence at 4.45 p.m. ; 

 lightning, a hurricane of wind, and a little rain. 



BEAMINSTER, FLEET STREET. The year 1911 will be long 

 remembered for its prolonged drought and excessive heat, 

 every month from May to September inclusive being above 

 average in temperature, whilst in rainfall each of the first 

 10 months was below the average, except March, which had 

 an excess of half an inch. The drought did not terminate 

 until October 17th, up to which time the rainfall since Jan. 

 1st had been only 15'52 inches, whereas in the remaining 10 

 or 11 weeks the fall was 18 - 74 inches, including 10 - 27 inches 

 in December. 



Up to the end of November we were 10 inches short of the 

 average, and bid fair to record the driest year of the past 38 

 years, according to the records at the vicarage, but the rain 

 of December entirely upset anticipations. 



December was wetter than any month during 31 years' 

 observations. 



Unfortunately the period of greatest drought and of ex- 

 cessive heat came together in July and August, during which 

 time the rainfall was only T02 inch, whilst the max. temp, 

 was always above 70 deg. and often over 80 degs. 



During the summer there were 87 days with max. temp, 

 above 70 deg., and of these 48 days were above 75 deg., and 

 20 days above 80 deg. During the previous 13 years there 

 had been only 22 days above 80 deg. altogether. 



July and August were the two hottest months the 

 average max. temp, of July being 76'5 deg., and that of 

 August 74*7 deg. Rainfall in 1911 was 3'63 inches below 

 average. 



CHEDINGTON COURT. The fall of May 26th was the most 

 remarkable of the year, T14 of total fell under 2 hours, 2.15 

 to 4 p.m. Evidently it was a cloud burst, as it fell in a small 

 radius in such large quantity, a mile to the East and f of mile 

 to West the fall was only comparatively slight. The fall of 

 18 on 25th August fell in 10 minutes. 



