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the aggregate 41 records of such a fall, 15 of which reached at 
least ljin., 4 of these If in., and one of these 2 ins. 
The total yearly fall ranged from 24*81 ins. at the G-irls’ 
Grammar School, Ware, to 35*81 ins. at Church Croft, Hemel 
Hempstead; and the total monthly fall from 0*39 in. at 
Bowmans, London Colney, in September, to 7*53 ins. at Church 
Croft in December. The greatest fall in any one day was 
2*13 ins. at Bayfordbury, Hertford, on the 9th of June. 
The rainfall in the Brent district slightly, and that in the 
Thame and Colne districts considerably, exceeded the mean for 
the county; that in the Ivel and Lea districts was considerably 
in defect, and that in the Cam district was greatly so. The 
rainfall in the Thames basin slightly exceeded the county mean, 
and that in the Ouse basin was considerably in defect. 
The mean rainfall in each of the minor river-districts was : 
Cam: (1) Bhee, 26*42ins. Ivel: (2) Upper Ivel, 27*73 ins.; 
(3) Hiz, 27*61 ins. Thame: (4) Upper Thame, 31*23 ins. Colne: 
(5) Chess, 32*05 ins.; (6) Bulbourne, 31*70 ins.; (7) Gade, 
34*28 ins. ; (8) Yer, 31*38 ins. ; (9) Upper Colne, 29*30 ins. ; 
(10) Lower Colne, 29*96 ins. Brent: (11) Upper Brent, 29*41 
ins. Lea: (12) Mimram, no record; (13) Beane, 27*42 ins.; 
(14) Bib, 26*67 ins.; (15) Ash, 27*21 ins.; (16) Stort, 28*61 ins.; 
(17) Upper Lea, 26*70 ins.; (18) Lower Lea, 29*15 ins. 
The rainfall in Hertfordshire in 1910 considerably exceeded 
the average in the adjoining counties. Comparing it with the 
mean for the whole of the gauges in each of those counties in 
‘ British Bainfall,’ 1910, we have this result: Cambridgeshire 
(48 gauges), 24*25 ins. ; Bedfordshire (27 gauges), 25*14 ins.; 
Buckinghamshire (32 gauges), 29*65 ins. ; Middlesex, excluding 
London (56 gauges), 26*92 ins.; and Essex (93 gauges), 
24*04 ins., the average of the 267 gauges being 25*70 ins. That 
for Herts for all stations in ‘ British Bainfall ’ (72) being 
28*85 ins., there is an excess over the average in the adjoining 
counties of more than 3 inches or nearly 12 per cent. 
The most notable meteorological occurrences in the year were 
a great gale or hurricane with heavy rain on Sunday the 20th of 
February, and severe thunderstorms in February, April, May, 
June, and September, those on Tuesday and Thursday the 7th 
and 9th of June being the most severe. 
The gale of February appears to have been most destructive 
in the neighbourhood of Watford and St. Albans. The weather 
had been boisterous for some days; on the Saturday the wind 
reached the force of a gale, and on the following day almost 
that of a hurricane. Large elm-trees were blown down on that 
afternoon at Oxhey near Watford, falling across Eastbury Boad, 
and at Tollpits on the lower Bickmanswortli Boad; another fell 
across the canal at Springbridge, Bickmansworth; and several 
other trees succumbed to the gale at Bushey and Bickmansworth. 
At St. Albans a fine specimen of the “ silver lime,” which for 
some 80 years had adorned St. Peter’s churchyard, was literally 
