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Rain fell on 128 days ; heaviest rainfall in 24 hours, 1.46 on July 23rd.
Danbury.—The Rev. J. Bridges Plumptre, Rector of Danbury, reports:—
'The total for the year shows that we have had about the average amount of
rain, and yet the number of days on which rain fell is by no means high.
From the point of view of the rainfall, I think that last year may be marked
as a favourable one, so far as this locality is concerned.
The gauge is one foot above the ground, and 365 feet above sea-level ; the
diameter of funnel five inches :—
During the year 1899 there were three absolute droughts, viz. : (1)
Feb. r8th to March 7th, 18 days; (2) May 25th to June 17th, 24 days; (3)
Nov. nth to Nov. 30th, 20 days.
The total rainfall is exactly seven inches more than in 1898.
Chelmsford.—Mr. F. Chancellor sends the monthly totals for rainfall at
Chelmsford. The total for the year (1899) was nearly half an inch above the
average:—