XXVI. 



' TABLE No. 1 shows the highest and lowest temperature with 

 the dates on which they occurred, together with the meanor average 

 'temperatures of each of the last 29 years. 



IV RAINFALL. 



THE RAINFALL. As the Western winds, which bring with them 

 the greater part of our British Rainfall, have to pass over the elevated 

 land in the West of Britain before they reach our Eastern Counties, 

 they do not so copiously discharge their refreshing showers on East 

 Anglia as on other parts of our Island. That the rainfall of Suffolk 

 should be comparatively small is, therefore, nothing strange. Observa- 

 tions have been made for a period of years in several stations of Suffolk 

 of the annual rainfall. Of these we have taken one for West and 

 another for East Suffolk, which, when compared, show a close similarity, 

 with trifling local differences. The Table for West Suffolk is from 

 Mr. Grieve's Article referred to above. It shows that during the 30 

 years last past, rain has fallen near Bury on the average of 156 days in 



