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average for July is about 2f in. The mean temperature of the 
first fortnight was about 7 degrees deficient, and the rain of 
that period, although not very excessive as to quantity, was very 
persistent, falling on thirteen days out of the fourteen. The greatest 
fall of the month was on the 17th and 18th, when 1.97 in. fell 
in two days. The latter part of the month was finer, with a 
temperate heat ; but harvest prospects at the month’s close were 
certainly far from being what could be desired. 
August. 
The first week was exceedingly fine and warm, the 5th being 
the hottest day of the summer, and the only one on which 
the thermometer reached 80 degrees. On the 8th colder weather 
set in, and continued with frequent showers to the end of the 
month, the thermometer touching 70 degrees on only three days, 
and the last eight nights being unusually cold for the season. 
Although some parts of England were visited with great rains, 
the amount measured at Blofield was only 2.G8 in., or very 
slightly over the average. The frequency of light falls of rain, 
and the low temperature, made the weather of the latter part of 
the month excessively ungenial, there being only three days 
between the 10th and 31st on which rain did not fall. Harvest 
began generally about the second week of the month, but was 
much interrupted by rain. 
September. 
This was an exceedingly line month, with a mean temperature 
of 2 degrees above the average, and witli but a trifling rainfall. 
Although the Septembers of 18G8 and 1875 gave a slightly higher 
mean temperature, they were not so continuously fine, and we 
have to go back to 1865 for a finer September. In that year the 
mean temperature of September was G4 degrees, and the rainfall 
in the east of England nil, the latter being an occurrence which 
has not since happened in any month. In September 1890 the 
thermometer exceeded 70 degrees on eleven days, and in no case 
was there a day temperature under G4 degrees. On the 27th the 
thermometer reached 75.4 degrees, a height rarely attained so late 
in the season. The weather was exceedingly favourable to the 
harvest, which was concluded by the middle of the month. 
