REPORT ON METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, WISLEY, 1913. 59 



of the I4tli brought with it a fall of nearly 4 inches of rain, " the rain 

 appearing hke a continuous sheet of falHng water " ; at Wisley the 

 fall on this occasion was nearly three-quarters of an inch. But, taking 

 the kingdom as a whole, it was only in those places which thunder- 

 storms had visited that the fall of rain approximated to the normal, 



Fig. 22. — Mean Temperature of the Air; Mean Maximum and Mean 

 Minimum Temperature of the Air ; Mean Minimum Temperature on 

 THE Grass, for each Month. 



and many parts of the west which are usually amongst the wettest 

 had total falls of less than half an inch. To complete the description 

 of this unseasonable month it only remains to add that its sunlessness 

 was as remarkable as its lack of rain ; a few places in the north and 

 west received more than their average amount of sunshine, but the 



