THE RAINFALL OF GUERNSEY. 



39 



This table also enables me to compare the means as 

 found for Hauteville with the means of the four stations for 

 each month. The differences between the two sets of means 

 give for the annual rainfall a correction of 4*86 inches. The 

 correction given last year on a three years' average was 4*66, 

 and that of the preceding year 4*63. It will be observed 

 that the correction is increasing, in other words the difference 

 between the rainfall of town and country has been increasing 

 for three years. 



The corrected means can be studied in the table given. 



TABLE III. 



The Means of the Four Stations for the Last Four Years, their 

 Differences from the Means of Hauteville, a Corrected Mean for 

 the Island compared with the 58 Years' Mean. 







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Difference 





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between the 





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2 last columns 



Months. 







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showing the 





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£s3£& 



different dis- 





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Mea 



Foui 



for 



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£§.§ 





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tribution of 



Rain during 



the year. 





Inches. 



Inches. 



Inches. 



Inches. 







+ 



_ 



Jan 



3-59 



3-08 



-0-51 



3-87 



3-36 



333 



0-03 





Feb. . . 



3-74 



3-56 



-0-18 



2-65 



2-47 



2 42 



0-05 





March . . 



2-29 



2-18 



-o-ii 



2-45 



2-34 



2-35 





o'-oi 



April . . 



2-75 



2-49 



-0-26 



2-30 



2-04 



2-00 



o'()4 





May.. .. 



3-27 



2-63 



-0-64 



2-18 



1-52 



1-91 



, , 



0-39 



June . . 



3-17 



2-27 



-0-90 



2-10 



1-20 



2-05 



. , 



0-85 



July .. 



101 



0-96 



-0-05 



2-23 



2-18 



2-20 



, , 



0-02 



Aug. . . 



2-87 



2-54 



-0 33 



2-41 



2-08 



2-14 





006 



Sept. .. 



2-53 



2-26 



-0-27 



3-13 



2-86 



2-84 



0-02 





Oct 



2-69 



2-15 



-0-44 



4-89 



4-45 



4-43 



0-02 





Nov. . . 



4-45 



3-83 



-0-62 



4-46 



3-84 



3 87 





0-03 



Dec. . . 



528 



4-66 



-0-62 



| 



4-15 



3-53 



3-59 





0'06 



Year . . 



37-10 



32-24 



; -4-86 



36-74 



31-88 



32-06 





0-18 



The year ranks as a wet one, the difference from the 

 mean is not great being 1*16 in. We have, however, a heavy 

 record in wet days. Six months of the year gave a greater 

 number of wet days than the average ; they were January, 

 February, June, August, November and December. Of 

 these, January, February, November and December, were 

 the highest (see table for detail). Of the other six months, 

 July and September were very dry. In the annual total 

 Les Blanches gave the greatest number of wet days, 199 ; 

 Hauteville was next with 186. Claire Mare followed Avith 

 179, and L'Ancresse experienced the fewest wet days, its 

 total being 171. The 58 years' average is 178 days, and the 

 average of the four stations for 1900 is 182 or 5 days over 

 the average. 



