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month the direction of the wind was almost continuously 
N.E. and E., and on many days these winds were very search- 
ing and rough. The weather in the middle of the month was 
dry, and some days were bright, but there was not much 
warmth after the 5th. Rainfall was .45 ins. deficient, and no 
rain whatever fell between the 9th and 24th, but there was 
a great downpour on the last-named day, lasting all night, 
measuring 1.05 ins. in the twenty-four hours. 
October. 
This was as unpleasant a month as could well be imagined. 
Not only was it very wet, but the rain was accompanied by 
much cold weather. The mean temperature of the month 
(44.8 degrees) was 4.5 degrees below the average, and it 
would appear that so cold an October had not been recorded 
in East Anglia since 1786, or a period of 119 years. It is 
true that colder nights and days have been chronicled in 
recent Octobers, and the mean temperature was nearly as 
low in 1817 and 1881, but a careful search into old weather 
records does not reveal a colder October on the mean since 
1786. The two coldest weeks were those ending 21st and 28th, 
whose mean temperature were respectively 40.6 degrees and 
40.8 degrees, or nearly 10 degrees below the average. Rainfall 
was 1.24 ins. in excess of the mean— but it is not a little re- 
markable that while it was so wet here, in nearly all other parts 
of the British Isles it was exceedingly dry, though very cold. 
November. 
Like October, temperature was low for the season, but 
the deficiency was relatively less. It was the coldest Novem- 
ber since 1896, and there were seven successive nights with 
frost in the week ending the 23rd. Rain fell with considerable 
frequency, but the total fall was less than usual. Much chilly, 
damp weather prevailed, and on the morning of the 27th 
there was a gale of considerable violence from the S.W. 
A bright aurora was seen on the evening of the 15th 
