MR. A. W. PRESTON’S METEOROLOGICAL NOTES. 545 
above the average, and there were only two warmer Mays back 
to 1889. At the end of the month the countryside presented 
the appearance of mid- June in an average season; it was 
certainly the forwardest Spring since 1893. 
June. 
June was a very unsettled month, with frequent ram and 
thunder. Mean temperature was slightly higher than the 
average, owing to the nights being warm for the season through 
a great prevalence of cloud. Sunshine was much broken, and 
was 30'8 hours below the average. In some localities there 
were some severe thunderstorms, but at Norwich, although 
thunder was heard in the distance on many days, no storm of 
any severity broke over the city. The rams refreshed the soil 
after the long drought of April and May. 
July. 
Rather cool, cloudy weather prevailed during the first eight 
days, during which '92 in. of rain fell. This was followed, on 
the 10th, by a period of intense heat, recalling the hot days of 
the previous Summer. The thermometer reached 80° and 
upwards in the shade on six consecutive days, on two of which 
it exceeded 85°. From the 18th to the end of the month the 
weather was rainy, windy, and cool, the change from the 
previous heat and dryness having been very abrupt. Nearly 3 
inches of rain fell during that period. Thunderstorms occurred 
on the nights of the 6th and 24th, and thunder was heard on 3 
other days, but the storms were less severe here than in many 
other parts of the Kingdom. It is stated that barley was carted 
at Rushall, near Scole, on the 15th. 
August. 
It would be impossible to imagine a greater contrast than the 
Augusts of 1911 and 1912. The former was the warmest on 
record, and gave the highest shade temperature ever recorded 
in England, besides being abnormally dry. That of 1912 was 
the coldest for 95 years, and the wettest (in this district) on 
