THE KAINFALL OF GUERNSEY. 



415 



The uncertainty of rain is a point which the observations 

 help us to detect. As long- as we discuss one station only, we 

 cannot realise that heavy rains fall on part only of the island 

 at times. It does not always follow that rain in one place, 

 and even heavy rain, is accompanied by rain all over the 

 area of the island. At other times the quantity of rain which 

 falls over even continental areas is remarkably constant. 



table v. 

 HEAVY FALLS OCCURRING IN ONE DAY. 



Date. 



Hauteville. 



Claire Mare. 



Les Blanches. 



1 



LAncresse. 



Months. 



Day. 



Falls between 0"50 and I/O inch. 



January 



1 



11 



13 



15 



17 



4 



5 



8 



13 



24 



12 



21 



30 



7 



21 



28 



29 



30 



26 



2 



7 



9 



24 



26 



0-93 

 0-53 

 0'61 

 0-52 

 0-50 

 0-77 



0-67 

 0-84 

 0-57 

 0-66 



0-77 



0-67 



0-64 



0-75 



0-63 

 0-75 

 0-56 



0-70 



0-67 

 0-57 

 0-88 

 0-54 



0-51 

 0-44 



0-71 



0-58 

 0-75 



0-55 

 0-73 



0-84 

 0-51 

 0-59 



0-66 



0-75 

 0-88 

 0-54 



0-61 

 0-54 



0-63 



0-95 

 0-63 

 0-74 

 0-65 



0'84 







" 







— 



February 



>> 



55 



April 



0-68 



0-64 

 0-88 







May 









June 





July 



0*56 



September 



»> 



>j 



5 5 



October 



0-74 

 0-74 



November 



55 



55 ........ 



December 



55 ........ 



0-54 

 0-70 

 0-54 





Fi 



ills of one in 



ch and above. 







July 



21 

 5 



7 

 26 



1-25 

 1-60 

 1-27 



1-78 



1-01 

 1-57 

 1-20 

 1-31 



111 



1-67 



1-62 



1-04 



November 



55 



December 



1-56 

 1-39 

 1-25 



Since 1890 there have been five years of equally small or 

 smaller amounts of rain as has occurred this year. They are : — 

 1890 — 34-33 inches. 1896 — 32*97 inches. 



1892 — 30-56 „ 1898 — 34*36 „ 



1893 — 30-84 „ 



Mr. Eowswell states that his returns give this year's 

 fall as a smaller fall than the last five years. 



