EAINFALL AT CLIFTON IN 1883. 
139 
months out of the twelve showed an excess and six a deficiency, 
the total for the year being 34‘793 inches, or about half an inch 
above the average. 
January and February brought a continuation of the rainy 
period which marked the close of the previous year. The three 
following months — March, April, and May — were all unusually 
dry, yielding together 3’387 inches, a smaller quantity than had 
before been recorded in the same three months. The driest 
month of the year was April, with 0*859 inch. The wettest 
was November, with 4*950 inches. 
The longest intervals of drought were in February and 
March, 19 days; ‘in March and April, 18 days; in the latter 
part of August, 15 days. Only very small quantities of rain fell 
in each of these periods. 
There was no instance throughout the year of a day’s rain 
amounting to one inch, although this limit was approached on 
the 10th of February and on the 8th of August. 
The year was almost entirely free from snow, the greatest 
depth noted having been half an inch on the 8th of March. A 
little fell, however, as late as the 10th of May. 
