204 A YEAR S WEATHER. 



We notice that the London Correspondent of the Manchester 

 Courier asserts that Truro was the wettest place in England in 

 1890. His idea, apparently, is that wetness is reckoned by the 

 number of days on which rain falls, whilst to meteorologists the 

 quantity measured is the guide, as it is to every civil engineer and 

 farmer. To him Truro was the wettest place in 1890, because 

 rain fell on 226 days. We agree in number, but taking this 

 elementary way of calculating wetness, the following places were 

 surely wetter in 1890. It is not a complete list, but is somewhat 

 distributive : — 



Cornwall — Penzance (St. Clare), 263 days ; Eedruth, 236. 

 Devonshire — Trusham, 256; Chagford, 233; Princetown, 245. 

 Stafford — Uttoxeter, 236. Somerset— Exford Eectory, 263. 

 Lancashire — Bolton, 259. Yorks — Bradford (Stubden), 270 ; 

 (Doe Park), 269; Settle, 238. Cumberland— Keswick, 251. 

 Westmoreland (Shap), 258; Grrasmere, 243. Derbyshire — Wood- 

 head Station, 232. Sussex — Mares Eield, 232. Wetter places 

 reckoned by measurement of rain, taking Truro at 45-10-inches ; 

 Altarnon, 56-17; Princetown, Devon, 102-()7; Duddon Valley, 

 Lancashire, 85 65; Little Langdale, Westmoreland, 115 10; and 

 The Stye, Cumberland, 202-05-inches. The latter is the wettest 

 place in England of which we have any record, and is four and a 

 half times as wet as Truro ! The following is a summary of the 

 year's rainfall, of that of 1 890, and 40 years' mean for comparison. 



40 years' mean. 1890. 1891. 



January ... 4'85-ins 5"62-ms 3'40-ins. 



February ... 3-38-ins r84-ins 0'22-ins. 



March 2-91-ins 1-87-ms 3-90-ins. 



April 2-61-ins 4-01-ins 2-48-ins. 



May 2-45-ins 5 06-ins. ...... 2-26-ins. 



June 2-39-ins 4-17-ins 286-ms. 



July 2-60-ins 3-67-ins 1-62-ins. 



August 301-ms 3-79-ins 6-48-ins. 



September... 3-49-ms 2-63-ms 303-ins. 



October 4-81-ins 3-02-ins 8-55-ins. 



November ... 4-37-ins 4-35-ins 5-03-ms. 



December ... 4-65-ins 507-ins 5-22-ins. 



Total ... 4l-52-ms 45'10-ins 4505-ins. 



For 1891 we are three and a half inches above the average. 



