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MR. A. \V. PRESTON ’8 METEOROLOGICAL NOTES. 
With regard to the rainfall, the largest amount recorded on any 
day for the twenty-four hours ending 9 a.m. was 2.57 ins. on 
13tli July, 1889. 
The wettest month was October 1892, with a total of 7.62 ins. 
The driest month was February 1891, when hut .07 ins.of moisture 
was registered. 
The wettest year was 1892, the total fall being 31.05 ins. The 
driest year was 1893, -when only 19.66 ins. of rain fell. 
The mean monthly falls are given below, but, as from the number 
of abnormally dry years that occurred during the period the averages 
are undoubtedly too low to represent the standard values of the 
district, a further set of averages has been prepared, obtained from 
adding the previous eighteen years’ falls, taken from the register 
kept at St. Catherine’s Close, Norwich, by the late Mrs. Evans. 
There is no doubt that many of these eighteen previous years were 
abnormally wet, comprising, as the period does, the rainy years of 
the late seventies and early eighties, which were doubtless the 
primary cause of the setting in of the agricultural depression. 
Taking these unusually wet years as a set-off against the dry ones 
which occurred during 
the last 
ten years, the 
mean of the thirty- 
eight years rainfall 1865 to 1902 would appear to fairly represent 
that of this district. 
MEAN 
RAINFALL. 
January ... 
Mean of 
20 years 
18&S— 1902. 
ins. 
1.90 
Mean of 
8ft years 
1866—1902. 
ins. 
1.89 
February 
1.42 
1.71 
March . . . 
1.75 
1.74 
April 
1.57 
1.68 
May ... 
1.98 
1.85 
June 
1.78 
1.90 
J uly 
2.61 
2.66 
August ... 
2.22 
2.38 
September 
2.14 
2.47 
October ... 
3.04 
2.90 
November 
2.43 
2.64 
December 
2.13 
2.36 
Year 
... 24.97 
26.18 
