England.
1911.
July 1-31

General observations.
Severe drought

  Sailing from Montreal on June 24 I landed in
Liverpool on July 1st and spent the whole of the latter month in England.
When I reached there the country was suffering from drought as but little
rain had fallen since the preceding April. With the exception of a brief
shower on the evening of the 2nd and a thunder storm on the morning of
the 26th there was none whatever during my entire stay and the 3rd 4th
and 15th were the only days when the sun was not shining most of the
time, often in a perfectly cloudless sky. At mid-day the mercury usually
rose to above 80 [degrees] Fahr. [Fahrenheit], frequently to 84 [degrees] occasionally to 86 [degrees] and over to 88 [degrees].
There was seldom much haze and on the more brilliant & cloudless 
days almost no trace of it, even when one looked off over open
country for distances of ten or fifteen miles. The wind was commonly
from the west or south-west and at most no more than a light
steady breeze. The nights were uniformly just cool enough to be perfectly
comfortable. While many of the days were too warm to incline one to
indulge in vigorous exercise I did not find any of them really oppressive.