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STUDY OF " INTENSE" RAINFALL AT LEEDS, SUNDAY, JULY 19TH, 1891. 
BY RICHARD REYNOLDS, F.C.S. 
(Scale taken from Ordnance Map, tin. to a mile.) 
A violent thunderstorm, lasting not more than 40 min. , gave the only rain of 
the 24 hours. Its maximum fall was at Woodhouse Cliff ; in the first 25 min. , "23 in. 
fell ; then 15 min. gave "37 in., ceasing sharply. The latter record is at the rate of 
1 "5 in. per hour. 
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23 in. Museum . . 
42 in. Woodhouse Moor 
43 in. Weetwood Reservoir . . . 
50 in. Eccup Reservoir 
60 in. Woodhouse Cliff 
48 in. Lawns wood, Adel 
53 in. Allerton Hill 
22 in. Elmete Hall, Roundhay 
Mr. E. R. Waite. 
Mr. T. Hewson, C.E. 
Mr. R. Reynolds. 
Mr. C. S. Irvine 
Mr. T. Fenwick, C.E 
Mr. J. Hawthorne Kitson. 
