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AN interesting article on the mean annual rainfall in the English Lake district appears in this new volume of “British Rainfall,” in continuation of articles published in the volumes for the years 1895 and 1896. The earlier contributions showed the rainfall at Seathwaite from 1845 to 1895, and the rainfall within an area of about thirty square miles having Seathwaite nearly in the centre. In the present volume a much larger area— about 650 square miles—is dealt with from the point of view of rainfall, and a number of noteworthy conclusions are reached. The paper is accompanied by an oro-graphical map, and a map showing by means of isohyetal lines—that is, lines of equal mean annual rainfall—the distribution of the precipitation in the district. This map shows that annual rainfalls exceeding 100 inches occur over more than seventy square miles. A high rain fall appears to be established at the head of the Langdales, trustworthy observations giving a mean of 129˙7 inches at Mickleden, which value is within five inches of the rainfall at Seathwaite.
Symons's British Rainfall, 1897.
By G. J. Symons H. Sowerby Wallis. Pp. 58 + 239. (London: Edward Stanford, 1898.)
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Symons's British Rainfall, 1897. Nature 58, 389 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058389a0
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