IReturn of IRainfall, &c, in 2>oreet, 

 in 1920. 



By the Rev. H. H. TILNEY BASSETT, R.D. 



HE year 1920 was marked by no exceptional or 

 heavy rainfalls, but by constant rain and unusual 

 dull weather, and this was particularly a feature 

 of the summer months, one station recording the 

 total rainfall for July at 7 ' 67in. The warmest day of the year 

 was May 24th, maximum temperature 79*0; the summer was 

 generally cold. February was remarkable for being the driest 

 month of the year and for producing the exceptionally high 

 shade temperature of 60 '0, February 18th, and on the same 

 day 61*0 in London and Bath, and in Leamington (Warwick- 

 shire), 63*0. The only period of frost occurred between 

 December 10th and 16th, when a good deal of snow fell in 

 parts of Dorset, but the falls were local. 



There were no very long spells of rainless w r eather, the 

 longest being from August 18th to September 2nd, and 

 November 2nd to 12th; the average rainfall for the year 

 calculated from 15 stations, marked with an asterisk in the 

 tables, was 34'831in., the average for the 65 years 1853 to 

 1920, 34'763in. 



