THE SUNSHINE OF GUEENSEY FOE THE 

 YEAE 18 97. 



BY MR. A. COLLENETTE, F.C.S. 



As will be seen below, 1897 has proved to be an average year 

 as regards sunshine, differing as it does from the average (of 

 four years) by 18 hours only. 



A comparison between two stations in Guernsey has been 

 made possible through the kindness of Dr. F. Carey, who has 

 kindly given me an opportunity of comparing his results with 

 my own. As I am using my own observations and four years 

 average only, in discussing this year's results, I need only say 

 that Dr. Carey's results are slightly below my average, but 

 probably, as his results have been above mine in other years, 

 the differences are referable to " personal equation " quite as 

 much as to actual differences of sunshine. Taking the whole 

 period of both stations the difference is but slight, and, there- 

 fore, I feel that the figures given below can be fairly used to 

 represent Guernsey sunshine. To Dr. Carey's kindness in 

 passing on to me his copies of the " Weekly Weather Eeport," 

 I am indebted for the power to compare Guernsey with Jersey 

 and with six English stations. Owing to the fact that some 

 of the monthly totals in this paper have been extracted from 

 the " Weekly Eeports," and some (the three last months of 

 the year, owing to the monthly summaries not having arrived 

 in time for this paper) from the " Monthly Summary," it is 

 possible that the totals of the months so extracted may not 

 show the exact figures to be printed in the coming " Sum- 

 maries," but this inexactness will not interfere with the 

 comparison, the differences being small and the total for the 

 year correct. 



I first give a table showing the results for 1897 at Beau- 

 lieu, Guernsey. 



