1914.] RAINFALL OF GUERNSEY. 173 



August began wet; the first seven days averaged 0*11 in. 

 and totalled 0*76 in. Then the next six clays gave a total of 

 0*02, followed by torrential rain on the 14th, when 2 inches 

 fell in some parts of the island and about If inch generally. 



The 25th was a day of heavy rain, but otherwise the 

 month was not a wet one, indeed except for the excessive rain 

 of the 14th the month would have proved dry. The heavy 

 fall was due to a thunderstorm and it caused an excess of rain 

 in an otherwise dry month. 



September was a month of the same character as August, 

 for more than an inch fell on the 16th, but for which the 

 month would have been dry. 



October in the averages is the wettest month of the year, 

 but it was not true to its character this year, for the total was 

 under four inches instead of nearly five. A dry period began 

 on the 28th of September, and lasted until the 11th of 

 October, being a drought of 15 days, and as only one wet day 

 occurred, it was also a partial drought of 22 days. 



November was \ an inch in deficit, but became wet on 

 the 24th, and from that day to the end of the year, 38 days, 

 there was no break, every day being wet and many very wet. 

 December thus proved to be an excessively wet month of more 

 than 3 inches in excess of February and nearly 3 inches over 

 March. 



December's rainfall was phenomenal, not certainly the 

 wettest we have had, for its total was 8-78 inches, and we 

 have had one December with over 11 inches, but even that 

 yenr, 1876, had only 30 wet days, and this December had 31. 

 The fall was 4*55 inches in excess of the average, but that 

 average is 4*23 inches, hence Ave had more than twice the 

 average fall. 



The year proved to be 6 inches in excess of the normal, 

 having a total of 42'67 instead of 36*64 inches. 



The proportion of December's rainfall to the year's total 

 is normally 11-|%? this year it was 20|%. The three months, 

 February, March and December, gave us 47% of the year's 

 total instead of 26%. 



The number of wet days was 219 instead of 164, that 

 is 55 over. 



During the last six years there has been an alternation of 

 high and low rainfalls which I cannot trace in the older records, 

 inches. inches. 



1909 = 34*00 1912 = 46-51 



1910 = 46-16 1913 = 36-14 



1911 = 37-11 1914 = 46-67 



