202 GUERXSEY SUXSHINE. 



In the second table given it will at once be noticed 

 that only one month exceeded the average for the ten years, 

 that was March ; all the remainder were below their averages, 

 and in the cases of June and July very much below. 



The sunless days were but three above the average, 

 so that it appears that the want of sunshine has been a 

 persistent daily one. This fact is shown in many ways 

 in the tables, as for instance : The sunniest day of this year 

 produced but 13*88 hours while the previous lowest was 

 14*43 hours. 



The absence of long sunny days threw the sunniest 

 day into August, when in ordinary years it occurs in 

 June, but in June and July this year the sunshine curve was 

 depressed. These months were 51 and 35 hours short of 

 the averages. 



Another test of the peculiarities of the year is to be 

 found in the fact that in no month did we get 300 hours, 

 while in former years this figure, and above, occurred as 

 follows, as will be seen in the third table given : — 1895, 

 May, 309; 1896, May, 307, June, 302; 1897, July, 305; 

 1898, July, 337; 1899, June, 314, July, 340, August, 325; 

 1900, July, 326. 



