RAINFALL AT CLIFTON. 
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§aittfaW M in 1879. 
BY GEORGE F. BURDER, M.D., F.M.S. 
TABLE OF RAINFALL. 
1879 . 
Average 
of 
25 years. 
Departure 
from 
Average. 
Greatest Fall in 
24 hours. 
Number 
of days 
on which 
•01 in. 
Depth. 
Date. 
or more 
fell. 
Inches. 
Inches. 
Inches. 
Inches. 
January 
4*307 
3*462 
+ 0*845 
1*571 
1st 
II 
February 
3-921 
2*120 
+ 1*801 
0*540 
20th 
22 
March 
1*102 
2*247 
-1*145 
0*242 
30th 
13 
April 
2*863 
2*057 
+ 0 806 
0*555 
23rd 
14 
May 
3*218 
2*284 
+ 0*934 
I -055 
28th 
18 
June 
5-145 
2*441 
+ 2*704 
0*616 
30th 
24 
July 
3*669 
2*783 
+ 0*886 
0*603 
19 th 
20 
August ... ... 
7-319 
3*404 
+ 3*915 
1*243 
i6th 
21 
September 
3-906 
3*414 
+ 0*492 
0*661 
8th 
19 
October 
1*276 
3*646 
-2*370 
0-305 
19th 
II 
November 
0*586 
2*749 
-2*163 
0*180 
nth 
8 
December 
1-345 
2*711 
- 1*366 
0*541 
30th 
8 
Year 
38*657 
33*319 
+ 5*338 
1*571 
Jan. 1st. 
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Remarks. ^ — The year 1879 was characterised by a total rainfall 
considerably in excess of the average, notwithstanding that the 
three last months of the year were remarkably dry. The extra- 
ordinary succession of rainy years with which we have been 
visited since 1872, will be seen by a reference to the following 
table : 
