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STRAITS METEOROLOGY 







Average of 4 years 



Rainfall 1882. 









M.M. 



M. M. 



( Aclieen ) 







1,769 



1,806 



Deli 







2,233 



1,840 



Eio 







2,623 



2,430 



Jambi 







2,484 



2,154 



Palembang 







3,075 



3,147 



(Anjer) 







2,101 



2,034 



Bat a via 



. . . 





2,012 



2,460 



Sourabaya 



... 





1,854 



2.856 



(Banjoewangi) 





1,485 



1,446 



Tjildtjap 







5,054 



5,490 



Bencoolen 







3.173 



3,209 



Padang 







4,640 



4,673 



Singkel 







4,455 



4,057 



Celebes \ 



Menado 2° N. ... 





1 

 2,647 



2,8S0 



Macassar 5° S. . . . 





3,562 



4.203 



Moluccas -j 



Ternate2°N. ... 

 Bandars. ... 





2,402 

 3,118 



2,326 



3,4S8 



Borneo j 



Pontianak (on 

 the Equator) 



\ 



3,090 



3,09G 



( 



(B anjer mas in 3° 

 S). 



} 



2,519 



2,609 



Whether or not " monsoon " laws usually have such ruling in- 

 fluence, there can be little doubt that the effect of disafforestment 

 on the annual rainfall, whatever it may be elsewhere, is at a 

 minimum in the Straits. The difference of opinion on this point 

 is, it maj'- be surmised, partly due to some confusion between 

 the mean annual rainfall and the periodical distribution of rain 

 ( as recorded in the 'numbers of days on which rain fell ), aud to a 

 want of sufficient discrimination in the further matter of distri- 



bution, 



the loss or storage of the rain after h 



which 



is probably the most important point of all to agriculturists, though 

 one with which meteorology is only indirectly concerned. 



There can be no doubt that temperature, on the other hand, is 

 closely affected, here as elsewhere, by the loss of forest and by 

 the spread of buildings. The existence of Singapore now covers 



