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RAINFALL At CLIFTON. 
RAINFALL OF EIGHT YEARS. 
Year. 
1 
Rainfall. 
Departure 
from Average 
of 25 years. 
Inches. 
Inches. 
1872 .. 
42-366 
+ 9-047 
1873 
32-069 
- 1-250 
1874 
35 ’248 
+ 1*929 
1875 
44-047 
+ 10-728 
1876 
42*415 
+ 9-096 
1877 
38*230 
+ 4-911 
1878 
38-019 
+ 4-700 
1879 
38-657 
+ 5 338 
Mean of 8 years. j 
38-881 
+ 5-562 
It will be noticed that of the last eight years one only has 
shown a deficiency, all the rest an excess. The deficiency in 
1873 was trifling, the excess in most of the other years was 
large. The largest excess was, in 1875, which was the wettest 
year ever observed at this station the total downfall being over 
44 inches. In 1872 and 1876 the fall, was also exceedingly large, 
each of those years yielding upwards of 42 inches of rain. For 
the whole period of eight years the annual mean ha-s been nearly 
39 inches, and the mean annual excess, more than five and a half 
inches. 
The rainiest month in 1879 was August, with 7*319 inches — a 
monthly total which has only twice been exceeded within the 
period of observation. The driest month was November, with 
0-586 inch. October, November, and December, were all very 
dry, the aggregate of the three months being no more than 3*207 
inches — a quantity much less than has ever before been recorded 
in the same three months. 
The heaviest diurnal fall in 1879 was on the ist of January, 
when the rain and melted snow measured together 1.571 inches. 
