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Is it not a desideratum in our rainfall records that they should give, with the amount of rain, not mere rain-days (or days1 rain), but the exact time (or as near an approximation to that as possible), during which rain has fallen? This might at least, surely, be expected from our observatories and better equipped stations. Some of our continental neighbours are before us in this respect. Thus, the Geneva record, for more than thirty years, has contained as one of its items, “hours of rain.” May we not then ask why an institution like that at Greenwich, goes on giving the number of days on which rain fell; a momentary sprinkle being thus put in the same category with an incessant downpour of twenty-four hours?
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M., A. On Some Methods in Meteorology. Nature 50, 318 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050318c0
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