39G 
mr. a. w. preston’s meteorological notes. 
here in July 1897, was but 0.G7 in., the least recorded in this 
month since 1885. The mean temperature was slightly in excess 
of the average, and on the 24th it rose to 85 degrees. Thunder 
occurred on the 20th, 21st, and 25tli, and thunderstorms on the 
afternoons of the 2Gth and 27th. 
August. 
This was a warmer, but less settled month than July, and the 
heat during the first week was very excessive. On each day from 
the 2nd to the 19th inclusive, the thermometer exceeded 70 degrees, 
as well as on six other days. The mean temperature of the month 
(63.4 degrees) was upwards of 3 degrees above the average, and 
was within half a degree of the hot August of 1893, and it was, 
with that exception, the warmest summer month since July, 1887. 
Thunder occurred on eight days, and lightning was seen on one 
other day. In consequence of these frequent electrical disturbances 
the weather kept very unsettled, and the rainfall was very 
unequally distributed. Whilst in some parts of the county almost 
more rain fell than was wanted, at Brundall the falls, although 
comparatively frequent, were generally very small, the total being 
only 1.27 in. ; at Norwich Cemetery, only seven miles distant, the 
total was 2.15 in. 
September. 
The month entered with very unsettled weather, and on the 2nd 
a gale of considerable force blew from the S.W., and an electrical 
condition prevailed subsequently for some days, with heavy hail 
showers, accompanied on the 4tli and 6th by thunder and lightning. 
A period of dry weather, with cloud and mist, ensued for some 
days, but heavy rains occurred from the 17th to 20th, the fall on 
the 18th (0.92 in.) being the heaviest registered in the twenty -four 
hours ending 9 a.m. since August, 1895. The third week was 
very fine, warm and pleasant, with hardly any rain ; but on the 
evening of the 29th, after a close, oppressive day, a thunderstorm 
of considerable violence burst over the county, and lasted for several 
hours, the greatest intensity being developed in the West. A general 
downpour of rain accompanied and followed the storm, amounting 
at Brundall to 0.78 in. The total rainfall of the month (3.94 in.) 
was 1.28 in. in excess of the average. 
