354 
The Spring Brought o/1893. 
The following table, giving the totals in each of the three 
months at each of the twenty-four stations, except Preston, 
focuses the information in the folding table, and shows plainly 
the districts where the deficiency has been greatest : — 
Total Fall. 
Stations 
March 
April 
May 
March 
to 
May 
. 
Stations 
March 
April 
May 
March 
to 
May 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
Camden Square . . 
•32 
•24 
•79 
1-35 
Cheadle 
■78 
•53 
2-28 
3-59 
Walmer 
•39 
•03 
1-37 
1-79 
Coventry .... 
•41 
•43 
204 
2-88 
Brighton .... 
•34 
•06 
•56 
•96 
Boston 
•34 
•15 
1-22 
1-71 
Strath. Turgiss . . 
•37 
•12 
1-01 
1-50 
Tickliill 
•33 
•30 
1-92 
2'57 
Hitcliin 
■38 
•25 
•93 
1-56 
Preston 
■80 
■21 


Bury St. Edmunds . 
•32 
•08 
1-03 
1-43 
Ripon 
•59 
•61 
2-55 
3-75 
Langton Herring . 
•32 
•15 
1-13 
1-60 
Hull 
•43 
•38 
107 
1-88 
Hartlaud Abbey . 
•78 
•51 
2'27 
3'56 
Newcastle-ou-Tyne 
•59 
•46 
1-93 
2-98 
Bodmin .... 
•39 
•28 
1-32 
1-99 
Haltwhistle . . . 
•95 
•78 
2-62 
4-35 
Wells 
•go 
•13 
11C 
1-89 
Borrowdale . . . 
8-67 
1-59 
5-75 
1G-01 
Stroud 
•25 
•04 
1-79 
2-08 
Haverfordwest . . 
1-24 
•40 
1-23 
2-87 
Church Stretton . 
•72 
•34 
2-81 
3'87 
Llandudno .... 
•77 
■87 
1-75 
3-39 
We have here evidence of two exceptionally dry months, 
followed in some districts by a third dry month (May), but in 
the N. and N.W. of England the deficiency in May has not 
been serious. 
The area over which the drought has been severe is that 
S.E. of a line joining Cardiff to Hull, and it has been worst 
along the south coast from Dover to Exeter. 
G. J. Symons. 
June 12th. — I see it stated in many publications that “the 
drought continues.” As a broad generalisation that is cor- 
rect, but only as a vague general statement. The fact is that 
usually a drought breaks up with a week or a fortnight of 
drenching rain. There was a complete break in the drought 
at nearly every station in the days following May 15, and at 
two or three the fall even on a single day exceeded an inch, but 
these rains did little or nothing towards making up for the 
previous deficiency. With the exception of some thunder- 
storms on May 29, another partial drought began at many 
stations on May 21 and is in progress. 
In a country in which no one will listen to any suggestion 
as to the expediency of making arrangements for water conser- 
vancy for agricultural purposes or for irrigation, two or three 
dry months naturally cause trouble. Now that there is a return 
to the type of weather which we had early in the century, some 
persons may consider whether drain tiles are the only things 
required for providing crops with the precise quantity of water 
needed for perfect growth — enough and not too much. 
G. J. S. 
