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J. H0PK1HS0N—THE RAINEALL IX 1901. 
18th it was considerable at one station (Offside Cottage, Cowroast) 
and very considerable at one (The Grove, Kens worth). The 1st was 
the wettest day at one station, the 2nd at 4 stations, the 6th at 2, 
the 16th at 22, the 18th at 14, and the 16th and 18th were the 
wettest at 2 stations. 
November.— Yery dry, and with very few wet days, being only 
half the average number. The only very wet day was the 13th, 
when the fall, which was partly rain and partly snow, was con¬ 
siderable at 13 stations and very considerable at 4. This was the 
wettest day at all stations. 
December.— The only very wet month in the year, with rain 
on scarcely the average number of days, three very wet days fully 
accounting for the large amount of the fall. Much of the pre¬ 
cipitation was in the form of snow, but during the last week rain 
only fell. By far the wettest day in the month, and generally over 
the county in the year, was the 12th, when the fall, chiefly as 
snow, was at least very considerable at all stations. It was great 
at Much Hadham (1*00), Gilston Park (1*00), Northaw (D00), 
New Barnet (1*01), Chipperfield (1-02), Kensworth (1*02), Bone 
Hill, St. Albans (1*02), Bed House, "Ware (1 *02), Odsey (1 *03), 
Danesbury, Welwyn (104), Weston Park (D04), Bennington 
House (1*04), Hamels Park (1*04), Panhams Hall, Ware (1*04), 
Datchworth Bectory (1*07), The Pirs, Hitchin (D10), the County 
Museum, St. Albans (l’lO), the Sewage Works, Hertford (D10), 
Bridge House, Welwyn (Dll), Progmore, Watford (D13), Pendley 
Manor, Tring (1*14), Bothamsted, Harpenden (P15), Gorhambuiy, 
St. Albans (D15), Bayfordbury, Hertford (D16), Bulbourne (1'17), 
Preston, Hitchin (D19), Great Gaddesden (D20), Apsley Mills 
(D20), and Moor Park (D23); and very great at Cowroast (D28), 
Oflside Cottage, Cowroast (1*38), Bosebank, Berkhamsted (D40), 
and Bose Cottage, Berkhamsted (D48). On the 24th the fall, 
partly as snow, was considerable at 30 stations and very considerable 
at 4. And on the 28th it was considerable at 8 stations and very 
considerable at one station (The Grove, Kensworth). 
Comparison with the Rainfall of the Adjoining Counties.—The 
result of a comparison of the rainfall in Hertfordshire with that 
of the adjoining counties is very similar to that for the years 
1899 and 1900, our county having an excess last year of 11*8 
per cent. The mean rainfall in the year at the same stations as in 
the previous year (one to every 40 square miles in each county), 
except that in Beds one station has had to be substituted for 
another discontinued last year, was as follows:—Cambridgeshire 
(21 stations), 17-55 ins.; Bedfordshire (12 stations), 20-05 ins. ; 
Buckinghamshire (18 stations), 20-40 ins.; Middlesex (7 stations), 
20*11 ins.; and Essex (33 stations), 18’23 ins. ; the mean for the 
whole of the 91 stations being 18-89 ins. This gives an excess in 
Hertfordshire of about 2^ inches, and a mean excess for the three 
years of about inches per annum. 
