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Falls of Snow at Chester and Neighbourhood for 
Eleven 
Seasons. 
October 
.. 2 
January 
... 25 
April 
... 
... 2 
November ., 
•• 7 
February 
... 26 
May 
... 2 
December . , 
.. 16 
March .. 
. ... 14 
Droughts are an important element in plant life. A drought is 
more than fourteen consecutive days without any rain. Droughts 
are sure to take place in the northern part of the area in two years 
out of three on the average ; several may take place in one year, 
as in January, March, and August of 1880. Only five times in the 
past thirty-five years have there been droughts of three weeks or 
more. The longest being twenty-six days — 8th June to 3rd July, 
1887. In the southern parts droughts occur rather more fre- 
quently, three years out of four on the average, and one in three 
may last for three weeks. The longest in the last twenty-one years 
was twenty-eight days — 8th August to 4th September, 1880. 
RELATIVE HUMIDITY. 
SOUTHPORT. 
LIVERPOOL. 
CHESTER. 
20 Years, 
1872-91. 
10 Years, 
1891-1901. 
30 Years, 
1872-1901. 
24 Years, 1878-1901. 
1878-1890, 1891-1901, 
13 Years, ii Years. 
9 a.m. 
9 a.m. and 
9 p.m. 
Mean. 
ga.m. and 9p m 
Mean. 
9 a.m. 
9 a.m. and 
9 p.m. 
; Mean. 
January 
% 
88 
% 
88 
% 
85 
% 
88 
% 
88 
February ... 
88 
86 
86 
87 
88 
March 
85 
84 
81 
82 
85 
April 
80 
80 
76 
76 
81 
May 
77 
77 
75 
71 
79 
June 
77 
78 
76 
72 
79 
July 
80 
78 
76 
74 
77 
August 
81 
80 
77 
77 
81 
September ... 
83 
82 
79 
81 
85 
October 
85 
85 
80 
84 
87 
November ... 
88 
87 
84 
86 
88 
December ... 
88 
88 
86 
88 
89 
83 
83 
80 
80 
84 
