OCCASIONAL NOTES, 4.35 
SINGAPORE WEATHER IN 1885. 
Dry and wet seasons are, in their effects, even more dis- 
tinguished by the frequency and infrequency of rain than 
by the relative quantity of the rainfall. On this account it is 
my practice, at the close of each year, to make notes of the 
droughts which have characterised it. The rain-gauge registers 
hundredths of an inch, and I note as “droughts” all periods 
of seven consecutive days and upwards without measurable 
rain, and all periods of longer duration with only trifling rainfall. 
I was absent during the exceptionally dry year 1877, but, 
judging from the printed returns for that year, it did not 
surpass 1885 in this respect. The following are my notes for 
the latter year :— 
From 7th to 15th January,—9 days,—only 0.01 inch. 
From 11th to 30th March,—20 days,—only one fall of 
0.06 inch. 
From 14th to 29th August,—16 days,—only 0.09 inch in 
three falls. 
From 5th to 15th September,—11 days,—-only one fall 
of 0.10 inch. 
No measurable Rain. 
From 5th to 12th February, 3 2S days: 
» 16th to 380th March, PUES ose 
»  ldth to 24th April, sre Oye 
» 26th April to 2nd May, euch ayaa 
dsrd to 138th May,—11 days,— 
the fall was only 0.86 inch. 
26th April to 2nd May, 
» 16th to 23rd June, 
, ord July to 3rd August, 
Ist to 9th October, 
,»  2erd to 30th December, 
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OWOwaon 
