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BAKER S NORTH YORKSHIRE. 



The Average Amount of Cloud is pretty constant, being about 

 six-tenths from year to year, but of completely cloudy days 

 there are 121 annually, averaging one day in three, whilst the 

 clear days average rather less than three in a month all the 

 year round. 



Rain. — -This varies very much, both in distribution and in 

 amount, being large in the high land on the west and less in the 

 east bordering on the coast. The following table shows the aver- 

 age monthly falls, derived from a long series of observations, 

 collected by the Meteorological Office observers distributed 

 over the Riding. 



Table IV. 



MEAN MONTHLY RAINFALL (iN INCHES) 

 RIDING OF YORKSHIRE. 



IN THE NORTH 



January. 



February. 



March. 



April. 



May. 



June. 



2-09 



173 



174 



1-85 



1-88 



2'2I 



Juiy- 



August. 



September. 



October. 



November. 



December, 



2-63 



2-58 



2-93 



2-65 



2 69 



2-89 



Mean Yearly Rainfall 27-87 



Inches. 



During the period, 1872 was the year of heaviest falls, when 

 40*84 inches fell, whilst the next year (1873) was exceptionally 

 dry, 1 9 "6 1 inches only being collected. 



As examples of the unequal distribution of rain over the 

 district, the returns for 1885 show the following : The greatest 

 fall was at Hawes, where 60 inches were collected on 210 days, 

 whilst at Middlesbrough 20 inches only were measured on 121 

 days. On the average there are 193 days of rain and 31 days 

 of snow annually, being distributed as follows : — 



