no 



baker's north YORKSHIRE. 



rain ; the Autumn has about half as much more and the Summer 

 a little less than the Autumn. At the Northern stations the 

 Autumn is the most rainy season of the year in four, the Sum- 

 mer in three cases, but in every case Summer and Autumn 

 taken together have more rain than falls during Winter and 

 Spring taken together. The following table gives the number 

 of days' during which more or less rain has fallen during the 

 twenty-four hours in four of the stations upon an average of 

 years varying in number from five to twelve. 



AVERAGE NUMBER OF RAINY DAYS PEE MONTH AND YEAR. 



Months. 



o "-iCJ o 



o, 





< o'o 



M J. ^ 



^ >-l 1) 

 Woo '^ 



1-1 w _ • 



January ... 

 February . . . 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September 

 October . . 

 November 

 December 



I "2 



8-0 

 8-2 

 9-0 

 7-2 

 8-2 

 9-2 

 8-7 

 8-0 

 3"o 

 8-5 

 1-5 



13-8 



IO'2 



9-8 

 II 9 

 io'6 



12"2 

 12'6 



II-8 



i5'9 

 I4'6 



"•5 



17-4 



I2"6 



15-2 



177 



1 1 '2 

 190 



i8-8 



147 

 i8'o 

 i7"o 

 i8-3 

 i8-3 



25-5 



20'2 

 22*2 

 23-0 

 I9'2 



21 "O 



22 "O 

 197 

 22 'O 



23*3 

 20-3 



23 "3 



Total of the year. 



iio"4 



156-4 



2617 



So that we see that both the smallest quantity of rain falls 

 and upon the fewest days upon the east coast. In the Central 

 vale the rainfall does not differ notably from what is usual in 

 the eastern counties of England apart from the hills. Amongst 

 the eastern moorlands there is doubtless an advance upon this, 

 but to what extent I am unable to say ; and as we leave the low 

 country to penetrate the moorlands of the west both the quantity 

 of rain and the number of days upon which it falls augment con- 

 spicuously, and amongst the loftier mountains which Ue near 



