"glefttrtio of "glatx-tfaCC, &c., in por^Gct 

 XXX 1907. 



By H. STILWELL. 



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JKHE 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 

 33'23i in. The fifty-year previous average 

 '~^°^'^f, ^^"^"^ 3 3*63 2 in. The amount of rain for 1907 

 is, therefore, less than \ in. (o"4oi 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 074, 

 and that of the two previous months, July and August, only I'zS 

 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 a\erage. 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 30th September — nine 

 months — was i5'64in. ; but that of the three following months 

 amounted to i7'59 in., the wet weather of October continuing 

 during November and December, but to a modified extent. 



