230 BAILIWICK RAINFALL. 



Northerly winds were blowing on these days with broken 

 sunshine. 



It was in the early hours of September 3rd that the only 

 thunderstorm of the year came to us. It prevailed from 3 to 

 5 o'clock and was not at all severe. Rain and a heavy dash 

 of hail fell. In character the storm was far more of the 

 winter than the summer type. Alderney, too, was involved 

 in the disturbance, for Mr. Picot's report for the 2nd said : 

 "Thunderstorms off island afternoon and night." 



The cold weather prevailing at the end of September ran 

 on, with the exception of one warm week (October 10th to 

 1 6th), to the end of November. Throughout October and up 

 to November 12th the cold was never pronounced, but on the 

 13th a very well-marked spell of low temperature set in which 

 lasted until the 29th. The sharpest day (the 28th), with a 

 minimum temperature of 30*4 deg. and a mean of 34*3 deg., 

 was actually 13*2 deg. colder than the normal, and it was by 

 2*1 deg. the coldest November day at Les Blanches of the 

 twenty-two year period 1894-1915. The general degree of 

 cold may be gauged by this, that the mean of the week ending- 

 November 20th (41*9 deg.) was 5*6 deg. below the normal, 

 and that of the following w T eek (November 21st-27th, 42" 1 

 deg.) 4*9 deg. below\ The month as a whole with a mean 

 temperature of 44*9 deg. w r as 3*8 deg. colder than the average 

 and was the coldest November here since 1896 which had 

 a mean of 44*8 deg. 



In rainfall the first three weeks of October were very 

 deficient. To that date the month was far from upholding 

 its character of the wettest month of the year, but on the 

 23rd the wdnter rains may be said to have set in in earnest. 

 That day's rainfall was heavy everywhere, but particularly so 

 at Sark where Capt. Henry measured 1*23 in. This, with a 

 similar fall on July 16th, was Sark's biggest daily fall for 

 the year. On the last day of October another big cyclonic 

 downpour gave Alderney its wettest day where no less than 

 1*32 in. of rain fell. 



The unsettled weather spread into November and 

 culminated with the passage of an extremely deep disturbance 

 on the 12th and 13th. The depression sent our barometer 

 down to 28 '5 in. (apparently the lowest reading of the 

 barometer at Guernsey since December 29th, 1899) and gave 

 us a gale of unusual violence — from S.W. on Friday the 12th 

 and from N. the following day* Towards noon of the 13th, 

 during the height of the N. gale, the ss. St. Mala (1,228 tons 

 gross), of the Compagnie Generate Transatlantique, turned 



