266 llfie Weather during the Agricultural Year , 1904-1905. 
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south-west sprang up, and the weather became gradually 
milder and less settled. On the 30th and 31st, when a com- 
plex barometrical depression passed across the country, heavy 
rain fell in all our southern districts, more than 1 in. being 
recorded in Kent and Sussex on the former date, and in Devon 
and Cornwall on the latter. 
In November the weather remained cold and was far less 
settled than in the two preceding months, heavy rain falling 
at frequent intervals. Between the 1st and 3rd nearly all parts 
of the country experienced a copious downpour, and on the 
last-mentioned occasion thunder and lightning occurred at 
several places in the west and south. After a brief quiet 
period between the 7th and 9th, when a good deal of fog 
prevailed in the south of England, two or three deep cyclonic 
disturbances came in from the Atlantic, and on the 11th and 
12th further heavy rains fell in many districts, these being 
followed between the 14th and 18th by cold north-easterly 
winds and snow or sleet showers in several parts of the 
country. Very sharp night frosts were now experienced, 
especially about the 18th and 19th, when the thermometer in 
the screen fell below 20° in most districts, and on the grass 
went in some cases below 15°. In the closing week of the 
month westerly or south-westerly winds set in (reaching the 
force of a severe gale on the evening or night of the 26th) 
and the weather became milder, with frequent falls of rain, 
especially in the western half of the country. 
For the autumn as a whole the mean temperature was 
considerably below the average, the deficiency being greatest 
in the western and southern districts. Over the country 
generally the autumn was the coldest experienced since that 
of 1896, and in some districts it was the coldest since that of 
1887. The rainfall of the season was less than the average in 
all but the north-eastern parts of the country, where there was 
an excess of about 9 per cent. In the midland and south- 
western districts the total amount was not more than three- 
fourths of the average, but in the southern counties and the 
Channel Islands it came within 8 or 9 per cent, of the normal. 
Over the country generally the autumn was not nearly so dry 
as in 1904 or in the three successive years 1900 to 1902, but 
was very much drier than in 1903. The amount of bright 
sunshine in the autumn exceeded the average in all the western 
and northern districts, but showed a deficiency elsewhere. 
The departure from the normal was in no case very large. 
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