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was the wettest day at 2 stations and the 31st at 52. There were 
thunderstorms on these two days. 
September.— A dry month, hut with rain on about the average 
number of days. The only considerable fall was on the 30th at one 
station (Apsley Mills). The 12th was the wettest day at one 
station, the 14th at 3 stations, the 24th at 5, and the 13th and 
14th were the wettest at one station. 
October. —Also a dry month, with about the same rainfall as 
September, but much more in defect of the average ; the number 
of rainy days, also, was below the average, although more than in 
September; October usually having much rain on many days. 
There was no considerable fall. The 6th was the wettest day at 
9 stations, the 16th at 6, the 21st at 34, the 23rd at one station, 
the 6th and 23rd were the wettest at one station, the 16th and 
21st at one, and the 21st and 23rd at 2 stations. 
November.— The third dry month in succession, as much below 
the average as September, but with rather more rain, falling on 
a small number of days. A little snow fell on a few days about 
the commencement of the fourth week. On the 7th the rainfall 
was considerable at 20 stations. The 6th was the wettest day at 
4 stations, the 7th at 43, the 10th at 6, and the 7th and 10th were 
the wettest days at one station. 
December.— A month of average rainfall on rather more than 
the usual number of days, two-thirds of which, with nearly all the 
rain, were in the first half of the month. Snow fell nearly every 
day during the second week, but not to any considerable depth. 
On the 6th the rainfall was considerable at 11 stations and very 
considerable at one station (Wigginton), on the 9th it was consider¬ 
able at one (Fairhill, Berkhamsted) and very considerable at one 
(the County Museum, St. Albans), and on the 13th it was consider¬ 
able at one (Fairhill). The 6th was the wettest day at 47 stations, 
the 9th at one station, the 11th at 4 stations, and the 6th and 11th 
were the wettest days at one station. 
Comparison with the Rainfall of the Adjoininy Counties. —The 
rainfall in Hertfordshire continues to be in excess of that of the 
adjoining counties on the whole, Buckinghamshire alone in 1904 
showing an excess over Hertfordshire. The mean rainfall in the 
year at the same stations as in 1903, except that in two instances 
stations have been discontinued and others have had to be sub¬ 
stituted, was as follows:—Cambridgeshire (21 stations), 18*34 ins.; 
Bedfordshire (12 stations), 20*75 ins.; Buckinghamshire (18 stations), 
23*85 ins. ; Middlesex (7 stations), 21*89 ins. ; and Essex (33 
stations), 18*56 ins. ; the mean for the whole of the 91 stations 
(one to every 40 square miles in each county) being 20*21 ins. 
This shows that we have been favoured with about three inches, or 
13 per cent., more rain than the average in the adjoining counties, 
which is less in amount, but more in proportion, than in the 
previous year. 
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