PHYSICAL FEATURES 5 



country is not subject to violent wind storms, 

 although a fairly high wind often precedes rain at 

 the commencement of the web season. The rain- 

 fall over all the country is extraordinarily local. 

 The annual fall over large areas is much the same, 

 but the daily and monthly falls differ for almost 

 every square mile. Occasional abnormal falls of 

 rain occur, particularly at the advent of the rainy 

 season, but, as the figures given in this chapter 

 show, the rainfall is very well distributed, both 

 monthly and daily. As a rule a shower of rain 

 falls somewhat rapidly and the weather clears up 

 quickly, although dull days in the rainy seasons 

 are fairly numerous. At Entebbe, the only place 

 where records of sunshine are kept, the average 

 daily amount of full sunshine through a year was 

 in 1911 six hours. Hail storms occur at rare 

 intervals not more than once in each year. 



The rainfall for the two provinces, Buganda 

 and Busoga, differs very considerably as far as 

 records go. During 1911 records were kept at six 

 stations in Buganda, and at three stations in 

 Busoga with the following result : 



Buganda ... Mean fall 47.59 ins. Wet days, 122 

 Busoga ... 40.22 93 



