188 RAINFALL IN DORSET. 



copying. It would be of great assistance, therefore, and 

 save some considerable time if observers would kindly have 

 their copies checked before sending them out, and I should 

 be extremely obliged if in future they would do so. 



Observers' Notes. 



Abbotsbury, New Barn. — The rainfall for the year, 

 namely, 38" 96, is 10" 55 inches more than the average of the 

 last 14 years. 



Beaminster, Hamilton Lodge. — The Beaminster average 

 for the 39 years ending 1911 is 37-79. The rainfall of 1912 

 (47' 79) is therefore exactly 10 inches above the average. 

 This fall, however, was exceeded by the 49*25 inches of 1903. 



Broadstone. — The night temperatures were high in the 

 Autumn, and the year wet and sunless, with very few thunder- 

 storms. 



Broadwindsor, Blackdown House. — 1912 was the 

 wettest year I have known. I have kept a record since 1894. 



Broadwindsor Vicarage. — A little sn6w fell on the 1st 

 and 3rd of February, and on the 19th of March. On the 

 4th and 8th of March thunderstorms with hail occurred, and 

 a hail storm on 21st October at 6.45 p.m. A partial eclipse 

 of the moon was very clearly visible on the 1st of April. 



Buckhorn Weston. — 3rd March — A very brilliant lunar 

 rainbow at 5.30 a.m. 4th March — A very strong gale more 

 or less all day, and at 2.30 p.m. a sudden and sharpish thunder- 

 storm. 



Chedington Court. — On January 18th, at 9 a.m., the 

 snow was 5in. deep, and lin. fell after that time ; a rapid 

 thaw set in on the 19th, and the snow was gone by the 20th. 



The lowest temperature was 18° of frost on the 3rd February, 

 and the highest 86° in the shade on July 16th. 



No thunderstorms of any note were noticed during the year. 



The wet month of the year was August, with 8-25 inches ; 

 the fall of 1-76 on the 17th August being the greatest for any 

 24 hours during the year. 



