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three days fewer. And until the end of the year September 

 alone stood out as favoured in the matter of sunshine. 



It may be said that in an}' year there are "surprises" in 

 the matter of sunshine. Thus, after four months, May to 

 August, during which Scotland had been much behind Kngland 

 in the matter of sunshine, we find that in September some 

 Scottish districts were at least as sunny as the south of Kngland. 

 For example, Crathes, on Deeside, was practically as sunny as 

 Jersey, and the similarity can only be described as extraordinary 

 in comparison with the entirely different conditions of the three 

 l^receding months. Thus the figures were : — 



1907. 



June ... 

 July ... 



August 

 September 



Crathes. 



Jersey. 



Hours. 



Hours. 



125 ... 



... 170 



108 ... 



... 259 



123 ... 



... 217 



194 .. 



... 199 



A general impression of the weather of 1907 in Scotland as 

 regards sunshine is given by the figures for Aberdeen as com- 

 pared with the average for that place. Aberdeen is one of the 

 few places in Scotland, going back as far as 1881, which may 

 be said to have been the first year in which the sunshine re- 

 corder found an approved place in the equipment of a weather 

 observatory. Comparing, then, last year's figures with the 

 average as deduced from the records of the twenty-five years, 

 1881-1905, we have the following table : — 



Sunshine at Aberdeen. 



January 

 February 

 March . . . 

 April ... 

 May ... 

 June . . . 

 July ... 

 August 

 September 

 October 

 November 

 December 



1907. 

 Hours. 



60 



111 



173 



150 



141 



149 



129 



143 



183 



87 



49 



26 



1881-1905. 



Hours. 



50 



72 



. 118 



. 155 



. 189 



, 187 



163 



, 153 



, 123 



, 99 



. 55 



, 37 



Average 



Difference. 



Hours. 



-;- 10 

 -•- 39 



-;- 55 



— 48 



— 38 



— 34 



— 10 



-;- 60 



— 12 



— 6 



— 11 



Year 



1401 



1401 







Thus, at Aberdeen, the year had exactly its average allowance 

 of sunshine, whilst the distribution throughout the year was 

 very far from approaching the normal. 



In conclusion, we may note that incursions of fog pre- 

 vented Edinburgh from participating to the full in the very 

 sunny character of the month of September, and make a 



