14 
eeport of the 
Eain Fall.— The Eain-fall at York, in common with the 
rest of England, and with the Continent of Europe generally, 
greatly exceeded a mean quantity, being fifteen inches in excess 
of the mean of forty years’ registration. The only approach to 
this was in 1848, when thirty-six inches were registered. In 
that year seven inches fell in the month of June,—February, 
September and October were also much in excess. In the year 
just passed, with the exception of May and a trifling deficiency 
in August, every month was much above a mean. Eeturns 
from Flaxton, Leeds, Ackworth, Ilkley, Malton, and Sheffield, 
show a proportionate excess. 
EAIN-FALL, 1872. 
Malton. 
Flaxton. 
Bootham. 
Cherry 
Hill. 
i 
Ackworth. 
Leeds. 
Ilkley. 
Sheffield. 
Jan. 
3-14 
3-17 
2-90 
3-13 
2-48 
3-15 
5-530 
4-24 
FeL. 
2-25 
2-15 
2-34 
2-59 
2-18 
2-57 
4-222 
2-79 
Mar. 
2-78 
2-00 
2-28 
1-97 
1-86 
2-25 
2-985 
2-32 
April 
2-66 
2-60 
2-86 
3-19 
3-65 
3-49 
3-670 
3-66 
May 
1-47 
1-30 
1-02 
1-22 
102 
1-24 
1-822 
2 33 
June 
4-14 
4-48 
5-42 
500 
4-41 
4-98 
7 025 
4-56 
July 
4-66 
4.96 
4-72 
5-05 
8-01 
5-38 
4-025 
6-34 
Ang. 
2-82 
2-59 
2-64 
3-04 
2-64 
2-44 
5-178 
2-55 
Sept. 
5-18 
3-75 
3-69 
3-40 
3-85 
3-92 
6-020 
3-84 
Oct. 
3-92 
4-32 
4-01 
4-10 
4-41 
4-42 
5-610 
5-42 
Nov. 
4-88 
4-59 
4-28 
4-21 
3-31 
4-19 
5-097 
3-78 
Dec. 
3'89 
3-29 
3-69 
3-48 
3-25 
3-35 
4-825 
3-98 
41-79 
39-20 
39-85 
40-38 
41-07 
41-38 
56-009 
45-81 
Daj^s of 
Rain .... 
} 
216 
215 
247 
Excess of 
Mean 
per cent. 
1 64 
63 
63 
57 
69 
57 
69 
Wind.— The prevailing Wind of the year has been S. and 
S. W., especially in the last two months, blowing from those 
cjuarters thirty days out of Gl, and in the course of the year, 
one hundred and fifty-three in the same directions. 
