400 RAINFALL NOTES, NOVA SCOTIA. DOANE. 



and not until late fall, and not even then in many localities, did 

 the dreaded water famine come to an end. 



With this condition all around us, Nova Scotia is to be con- 

 gratulated. Precipitation reports from Yarmouth, Halifax, 

 Truro and Sydney, show that the rainfall during the summer 

 was about the average. 



In St. John, New Brunswick, Mr. Murdoch, the engineer in 

 charge of sewers and water works, states that the whole rainfall 

 during the months o Jnly, August and September, amounted to 

 only 4.65 inches, or an average of 1.55 inches per month, which 

 was the lowest in six years. 



During the same months in Halifax, the rainfall was 10.908 

 inches, or very little below the average. Truro had a rainfall 

 of 11.11 inches, Sydney, 8.76, and Yarmouth, 11.09, inches, 

 while the total rainfall in Nova Scotia was above the average. 

 The total precipitation at Sydney was the highest on record. 



The last paper read before you on this subject (Trans., vol. ix, 

 p. 279,) gave the maximum storms to December 31, 1896. Since 

 that date new records have been made for minimum as well 

 as maximum rainfall. In August, 1899, the rainfall at Halifax 

 was 1.542 inches, the lowest on lecord for that month. In Octo- 

 ber, 1897, the rainfall was 0.746 inches, the lowest record for any 

 month. In November, 1898, the highest rainfall for that month, 

 viz., 10.248 inches, was recorded. 



On the 18th of June, 1897, a heavy storm occurred at 

 Halifax. It was reported by Mr. Augustus Allison, Dominion 

 Government Meteorological Agent, as 0.577 inches, and 4.2 hours 

 in duration. Mr. R. Cogswell gave the precipitation as 0.5 for 

 the heaviest part of the storm. It Is to be regretted that the 

 actual time of the heaviest downpour was not noted. Several 

 observers give the time as about 15 minutes, which would make 

 the rate of fall two inches per hour. 



Mr. James Little, meteorological observer at Truro, reports a 

 thunderstorm of great severity, accompanied by heavy rain, on 



