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RAINFALL AT SARK AND ALDERNEY. 



both at Alderney and Guernsey. As far as Guernsey is 

 concerned the storm was a slight one ; in each island the 

 rainfall was the same, viz. : 0'06 in. 



The next month, September, was the driest of the twelve, 

 and more than that. The figures show it in fact to have been 

 to date the driest month on record (since January, 1906) at 

 both Sark and Alderney. At Guernsey (Les Blanches) it 

 was with May, 1905, the driest month since May, 1896. The 

 dry weather notwithstanding there was no drought in the 

 technical acceptance of the term for a little rain fell at all the 

 stations on the 14th, and more heavily at Sark and Guernsey 

 on the 15th. Beginning on the 16th, however, a run of twelve 

 dry days was enjoyed everywhere. 



In October a most regrettable break in the records 

 occurred at Alderney. From the 2nd to the 29th inclusive no 

 measurements of rainfall were made at Le Huret. The 

 interruption in the observations is all the more to be regretted, 

 occurring as it did at a time of unusually heavy rainfall 

 when a comparison of the daily falls at this Station with 

 those at Sark and Guernsey would have been particularly 

 interesting. Fortunately, however, the observations were 

 resumed before the beginning of November — a month, as 

 far at any rate as Guernsey is concerned, of almost unpre- 

 cedented rainfall. 



The change from dry to wet — a change destined to last to 

 the end of the year — developed suddenly on October 10th and 

 the weather at once became excessively unsettled. Already on 

 the 11th the Sark gauge collected 1*11 in. of rain, and 

 two days later (Thursday, the 1 3th), when also a great 

 N.E. gale raged, the amount was no less than 1*84 in. As 

 a daily fall this latter is the biggest reported either 

 from Sark or Alderney in the five years 1906-1910. At 

 Guernsey (Les Blanches) 1*23 in. fell on the 11th, and 1*53 in. 

 on the 13th. October at Sark was to-date a record for 

 wetness (7*09 in.) and it is rather curious that it immediately 

 followed the month holding the record for drought, viz., 

 September with 0*29 in. only of rain. This is for the five 

 year period, 1906-1910. 



Unusually wet as October proved itself it was nothing 

 compared with the torrential downpours that deluged the 

 Bailiwick throughout November. The grand total for 

 November, in Guernsey and Sark at any rate, is one that 

 will take a lot of beating. At Alderney the figure is much 

 lower but appears to be in agreement with observations 

 taken at Totland Bay in the Isle of Wight and at other 



