COUNCIL FOR 1892. 
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than last year, is once more associated with a cold season, 
showing how much our warmth is due to the sun’s rays shining 
elsewhere than in our own Islands. 
The percentage for April (48) has only once before been 
exceeded in that month (44 per cent, in 1887), and besides in 
May, 1881 (54 per cent.)? 1882 (55 per cent.), 1888 (45 per 
cent.), and June, 1889 (47 per cent.). December was sunnier 
than any year except 1886 (31 per cent) 
Rain or Snow, to an amount exceeding 005 inch of water, 
fell on 191 days, or 20 above the average. Yet the total 
Rainfall, 24 75 inches, is 0 25 less. 
There Avas a deficiency in eight months, but the excessive 
rains in June and October (both more than double the average), 
brought the total thus near to the 50 years’ average. The 
maximum falls in these months (171 and 177), were only once 
surpassed since 1875. That a third fall of over an inch should 
be recorded (IT4 in May), is the more remarkable, since only 
five such, on the average, occur in each four years 
The remarkable 42 hours’ Rainfall, October 18th, 14th, 15th, 
and consequent floods, are sufficiently discussed elsewhere. 
Except on this date the river was never high. Summer level 
was recorded twice in July, two or three times in connexion 
with the frequent withdrawal of water from September to 
December, and three times during the severe frost which closed 
this latter month. 
In the Paper on “ Fifty years of York Meteorology ” in last 
year’s Report, attention was drawn to the fact that at sunspot 
maxima, June, September, and October showed a decided 
tendency to excessive rain, and August the reverse to an even 
more marked degree. Without wishing to insist too much on 
isolated cases, it is suggestive that this year should have 
brought us two such exceptional falls as those mentioned, 
whilst August fell rather below its average. 
The cumulative totals for the three wettest months from 
1871 are August 14P33 inches, October 139 00, July 137‘28 ; 
next comes September 122 38. 
An additional column headed “ visibility ,” accompanies the 
present tables. For ten years now, this has been compared by 
noting the West Riding Hills from Feversham Terrace. 
