2o8 mr. a. w. preston’s meteorological notes. 
The month was very rainy thoroughout, the total amount 
of rain registered here having been 4.08 ins., or more than in 
any July since 1903. Temperature was generally exceedingly 
low for the time of year, the screened thermometer never 
once rising above 73 0 . Much cloud prevailed day after day, 
and this, with the constant rains and chilly winds, took away 
almost all the July-like characteristics of the month. On 
many days a fire was welcome, and, bad as were the Julys 
of 1907 and 1909, in many ways that of 1910 outrivalled 
them ; it was, in fact, the most unsummerlike month of 
recent years, and will not readily be forgotten. 
August. 
This was a much finer month than July, although there 
was a considerable deficiency of warmth by day. The nights, 
through the prevalence of cloud, were warm, resulting in the 
month’s mean temperature being in close agreement with the 
average, and in the diurnal range of temperature being 
unusually small. Rain fell on 19 days, but many of the falls 
were light, and the month’s fall was less than the average. 
There was less thunder than in July, but storms occurred 
on the 3rd, 5th, 24th and 26th, a house being struck by 
lightning in Norwich on the morning of the last-named day. 
Wheat-cutting commenced in this vicinity about the 18th. 
September. 
The anticyclonic conditions which prevailed almost 
throughout this month kept the weather generally dry, 
although it was accompanied by much cloud, and the month 
here could hardly be said to have earned the title of the 
“ wonderful September ” which it is said to have done in the 
Southern counties of England. Rain fell on 19 days, but 
the amounts gauged were trifling except on the 14th, when 
no less than 1.16 ins. fell during the night and morning. 
The last few days of the month were very fine, some of them 
having been the finest of the summer. A lunar rainbow was 
seen on the evening of the 21st. 
