294 GUERNSEY SUNSHINE. 



A study of the monthly totals in the third table will 

 show that January, although better than last year, is lower 

 than in any other previous year. February was not quite 

 so bad, for 1897, 1900 and 1901 had gloomier Februarys. 

 March was the best month this year in the sense of its 

 exceeding the average of ten years, while no other month 

 even reached its average, but even that month was exceeded 

 by the Marchs' of 1894, 1895, 1899, 1900 and 1902. The 

 remaining months are equally bad, but of these June and 

 December have given smaller totals than any previous June 

 and December; June is less than the previous lowest June by 

 four hours and December by seven hours. 



The effect of these recent gloomy years has been to 

 reduce the averages, so that these stand considerably lower 

 than they did. 



The gloomiest day of the year was the 4th of January, 

 with seven minutes mean sunshine. The 19th approached it 

 nearly with 30 minutes, but the 29th of December was second 

 gloomiest with twenty-six minutes. 



The sunniest day of the year was the 7th of July, 

 with ]1*57 hours. This day during the ten years has not 

 given less than 4| hours sunshine, whereas the 4th of January 

 has given seven sunless days out of eleven. 





