REMARKS ON RAINFALL. 153 



The total for December is the largest for one month of which 

 we have record here. 



WINTERBOURNE SxEEPLETON. The rainfall of the year was 

 2'llin. less than the mean of the previous 18 years. During 

 the first 28 days of July there was an absolute drought. 

 The last three months of the year gave a total of 19-60, of 

 which 9in. fell in December. 



DORCHESTER, WOLLASTON HOUSE. Notwithstanding the 

 exceptional weather during the summer, the total rainfall 

 for the year exceeded the average by nearly 2 inches. The 

 last 3 months, October, November, and December, giving 

 19 - 70, which is considerably more than half of the year's 

 total. 



The period from 1st July to 18th September (80 days) 

 yielded only T03 inches ; this being partly accounted for by 

 the fact that no severe thunderstorms passed over Dorchester. 

 During the same period the maximum therm., Kew Register, 

 hanging in a correct Stevenson screen, registered 80 and over 

 on 26 days, touching 90 on 14th August. 



WINTERBOURNE HERRINGSTON. On May 26th we had a 

 very heavy fall of water, measured 2 -60 in an hour, but only 

 over a very small area. On Nov. llth we had T94, and that 

 was with thunder. 



BLOXWORTH RECTORY. The past abnormal year, 1911, 

 will no doubt be more or less minutely recorded in various 

 aspects by others of our " Recorders." I would only remark 

 upon one or two of them. First, upon the cold and ungenial 

 Springtide, which was here very hurtful to the fruit-crops, both 

 in their quantity and quality. This was followed by the long 

 summer drought, during which, in this district, although there 

 were often evident thunderstorms occurring in various direc- 

 tions, only one or two were of any noticeable kind here, and 

 these evidently at a great height overhead, of comparatively 

 short duration, and attended with but slight rainfall. Next 

 I would specially notice that the distribution of the rainfall 

 over the past year was unprecedented in the many past years 

 during which I have registered rainfall here, 12'33in. having 



