i8o Notes on the Weather and Crops. • [june, 



During the Harvest Season the Meteorological Office will, as 

 before, supply forecasts of weather by telegraph to persons 



desirous of receiving them, upon payment 

 Daily Forecasts of , ', , , ' u , , , 



of the cost of the telegrams. The fore- 

 casts will be so worded that the cost of 

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each message will be bd. tor any one 



district, including an address of three words. If the address 

 to which the forecasts are to be sent exceeds three words, an 

 addition of a halfpenny for each additional word must be made 

 to the cost of the daily telegram. 



Applications for the forecasts should be sent to the Director, 

 Meteorological Office, 63, Victoria Street, London, S.W., with 

 a cheque or postal order to cover the cost of the telegrams for 

 the period during which the forecasts are to be sent. 



The weather during the month of May has seemed ungenial and unfavourable, but 

 judged by meteorological standards it was not unseasonable, and on the whole showed. 



very few divergencies from the normal. The variations 

 Notes Oil the Weather t ^ lat occurre ^ were not exclusively in any one direction 

 . The bad weather that characterised the concluding week 



and the Crops in May. of April was cont i nue d. i n the first week of May, the 

 amount of warmth in every district of Great Britain being 

 recorded as " deficient," while the rainfall was " heavy " (" very heavy " in Scotland W.) 

 in every district except England N.E. The amount of sunshine was mostly normal, 

 but night frosts occurred in most centres of observation, the temperature falling at 

 Newton Rigg in Cumberland on one occcasion to 17 0 Fahr. 



During the second week the weather improved, especially towards the end, and a 

 short period of exceptional warmth was experienced. The sky was generally cloudy 

 or overcast, but the warmth was "unusual" in every part of Great Britain except 

 England E. and N.E., where it was " very unusual." Frosts were recorded at. 

 Cambridge, Dunmow and Clacton-on-Sea in the East, and at Birmingham, Kew 

 and Southport. Sunshine in the western section of Great Britain was "scanty," in. 

 England S.W. "very scanty." 



The brilliant weather with which the second week concluded was of very short 

 duration, and entirely disappeared before the end of the third week. The mean 

 temperature for the week differed little from the average as a whole, but from being, 

 very high at the beginning sank at the end of the week to an extremely low level. At 

 Great Billing, Northampton, the thermometer registered 83*5° on Saturday the nth 

 and 84*3° on Sunday the 12th, and 8o° in several places in England N.E. and E. and 

 the Midlands, but by the end of the week a large anticyclone had been definitely 

 established over the Icelandic regions and a brisk Northerly air current .passed over 

 this country, which caused the thermometer to fall to 32 0 in England N.W. , 35 0 in 

 England E., and 41° in the Channel Islands. Frosts were, however, rare. Rainfall- 

 was less than the average generally, except in England N.E. and E., where it was 

 "heavy." During a thunderstorm at Southampton on the 13th, 1*12 in. of rain fell 

 between 9.40 p.m. and 10.10 p.m. 



During the fourth week the weather remained unsettled. Rain fell frequently in. 

 all districts and in most places in the Midlands and North East was sometimes heavy,, 

 while several places experienced heavy showers of hail. The rainfall for the week in 

 England N.E. was " very heavy," as much as 1 '25 in. falling in Lincoln on the night 

 of the 23rd. The temperature, however, rose during the week, and by the end of the 



