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tendency of tlie curve ; this year's total has not borne out 

 this hope, 1904 having proved to be only an exception to 

 the low totals of the last four years. 



The sunniest month gave 260 hours, which looks small 

 compared with 340 hours in 1899. 



The mean daily sunshine has been reduced from 

 5*3 to 5*2. It will be seen in Table I. that May this year 

 ha«l a greater number of hours of sunshine than the average 

 of any month, being 15 hours in excess of the average 

 of July. This gave a mean daily sunshine for May of 9*6 

 hours, a very high figure. 



The percentage of the different months w^ere as follows : — 



The mean of the year being taken as 100. 



Mean of 12 years. 



January 4'7 2*7 



February 4-2 4'3 



March 6-6 7-3 



April 7-3 10-0 



May 16-9 13.4 



June 11-6 13-2 



July 14-8 14-7 



August 12-9 12-7 



September 7-9 9.8 



October 6-5 5-8 



November 3*8 3-8 



December 2-8 2-3 



1905 has thus been abnormal in several respects. It 

 is, however, comforting to observe that other places are 

 equally so, and with few exceptions the sunshine has been 

 abnormal in its distribution and small in its amount. 



Here are the totals of a few Districts : — 



Hours. 



Scotland 972 to 1,300 



North of England 1,360 to 1,578 



Exception — Blackpool 1,758 



East of England 1,290 to 1,527 



West of England 1,541 to 1,659 



South of England 1,584 to 1,650 



Scillies 1,770 



Jersey 1,733 



Guernsey 1,756 



