270 J. HOPKINSON-THE WEATHER OF 1910. 
October. —Very warm, with a very humid atmosphere, an 
exceedingly cloudy sky, and rather less than the average rainfall 
and number of rainy days. The mean temperature was nearly 
4° above the average, the excess being much more due to the 
warmth of the nights than of the days, giving a very small mean 
daily range. The lltli was the wettest day at 52 stations and 
the 31st at 2. The rainfall reached at least half an inch at 39 
stations on the 11th, and at least an inch at 15 of these : 1*04 in. 
at Hill End Asylum, St. Albans ; T05 in. at The Lordship, 
Bennington; 106 in. at The Chilterns, Hitchin ; 1T0 in. at 
Baldock; lT3in. at Willian ; 1-15 in. at Royston; IT 7 in. at 
Throcking ; 1*20 in. at Barley ; 122 in. at the County Museum, 
St. Albans; 1*28in. at Bone Hill, St. Albans; L35in. atWeetwood, 
Watford; L38 in. at the London Orphan Asylum, Watford; 
l‘40in. at Bushey Hall Road, Watford; 1*41 in. at the Colne 
Yalley Water Works, Watford; and 162 in. at Northwood; thus 
being much the heaviest in the neighbourhood of Watford. It 
was at least half an inch at one station on the 12th, at 2 stations 
on the 27th, and at 3 on the 31st. 
November. —Exceedingly cold, with a rather dry atmosphere, 
a bright sky, and a very heavy rainfall on about the usual number 
of days. The low temperature was much more due to the coldness 
of the nights than of the days, the mean daily range being great 
for the month (about 3° above the average). The 3rd was the 
wettest day at 5 stations, the 27th at 45, the 30th at 3, and the 
3rd and 27th were the wettest at one station. The rainfall 
reached at least half an inch at 43 stations on the 3rd, at 31 on 
the 23rd, and at 50 on the 27th; and at 9 of these it exceeded 
an inch: LOlin. at The Chilterns, Hitchin; L02in. at Odsey 
and at Cowroast, Tring; L03in. at Hamels Park; 105in. at 
Hadham Hall; P06 in. at The Maples, Hitchin; 111 in. at 
Offley; 1T3 in. at Bulbourne; and 1T6 in. at Hemel Hempstead. 
On the 29th it was at least half an inch at 3 stations, and on the 
30th at 33. 
December. —Unusually warm, with a rather humid atmosphere, 
a cloudy sky, and a very heavy rainfall on a large number of 
days. The high temperature was due more to the warmth of 
the nights than to that of the days, the mean daily range being 
rather small. It was the wettest December since 1876. The 1st 
was the wettest day at 11 stations, the 14th at 9, the 15th at 30, 
the 1st and 14th were the wettest at 2, and the 1st and 15th at 2. 
The rainfall reached at least half an inch at 23 stations on the 
1st, at 6 on the 2nd, at 11 on the 3rd, at one station on the 9th, 
at 19 stations on the 14th, and at 42 on the 15th. The wind 
was frequently high, and on two occasions reached a velocity at 
Rosebank, Berkhamsted, of about twenty miles an hour. 
Trans. Hertfordshire Nat. Hist. Soc., Vol. XIV, Part 4 , July, 1912 . 
