Returns of "glcurtfaCC, &c., in 

 in 1907. 



By H. STILWELL. 



JTCHE mean amount of rainfall for the year 1907, as 

 computed from the returns of the 55 stations in 

 Dorset comprised in the following tables, is 

 33*231 in. The fifty-year previous average 

 was 33*632 in. The amount of rain for 1907 

 is, therefore, less than | in. (0*401 in.) short 

 of the yearly average. 



The predominant feature of the year was the 

 very unusual amount of rain in October, the 

 mean of the 55 stations being 9*44 ins. for that 

 month. The heaviest fall occurred on the 1 6th, upwards of i in. 

 having been recorded on that day at 38 stations. Falls of over 

 i in. happened also on 8th October at four stations, on the loth 

 at eleven stations, on the i8th at seven stations, and on the 29th 

 at twelve stations. This heavy rainfall was no doubt much 

 wanted, the mean rainfall for September having been only 0*74, 

 and that of the two previous months, July and August, only 1*28 

 and 1*72 respectively. 



Although the summer of 1907 was regarded as a very cold and 

 wet season, these tables show that during the first nine months of 

 the year the rainfall was very much below the average. The 

 records for April show a mean of 4*25 in. ; but no other month 

 received half that amount. 



The total rainfall from ist January to 3oth September nine 

 months was 1 5*64 in. ; but that of the three following months 

 amounted to 17*59 in., the wet weather of October continuing 

 during November and December, but to a modified extent. 



