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of the 10th blew up an exceptionally high tide on the Norfolk 
coast. 
October. 
This was a pleasant Autumn month on the whole, with not 
much more than half the average rainfall, but there was a 
strong tendency to fog on the mornings and evenings of several 
days. The display of Autumn tints this year was very beautiful, 
but the fall of the leaf was unusually early. 
November. 
This month was generally wet, cloudy, and ungenial, with no 
extremes of temperature. Sunshine was very deficient, only 34 
hours having been recorded, against an averuge of 63 ho'urs. 
Twelve days were absolutely sunless. From the 4th to the 
18th there were less than 5 hours of sunshine, and on only one 
occasion during that period did the sun shine unbrokenly for as 
much as half-an-hour. I was informed that barley was being 
cut at Wacton, Norfolk, on Nov. 4th. When it is considered 
that barley was carted at Rushall on July 15th (see under July) 
the protracted character of the harvest of 1912 is forcibly 
demonstrated. 
December. 
Cyclonic conditions prevailed almost throughout the month, 
and changes in barometric pressure were sudden and rapid, 
-with the advent, one after another, of storm centres from the 
Atlantic. Great mildness prevailed, the mean temperature of 
the month having been as much as 5° above the average. On 
the 14th the thermometer reached 57‘2°, and, after Dec. 3rd, 
there was not one frost (in the screen) during the remainder of 
the month. One more snowless Christmas Day has to be added 
to the already long list. The open weather, combined with the 
general earliness of vegetation throughout the year, resulted in 
an unusual display of garden flowers at Christmas, when roses, 
winter aconites, snowdrops ( Galanthus Elwesii), blue hepaticas, 
and many other flowers were blooming freely in the open. 
Sunshine was again deficient, 15 days being quite sunless. 
