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Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine, January.—Heavy rainfall of December 30, 1900. The official weather charts showed that the centre of a barometric depression lay over the middle of Ireland in the morning of that day, and that it moved southeastwards, passing Bristol in the early evening, and reaching the English Channel on the morning of the 31st. This storm was remarkable for the heavy rains which fell in the valley of the Severn and its tributaries. Falls exceeding two inches in 24 hours occurred over a broad diagonal belt from the mouth of the Severn to the mouth of the Humber, while amounts exceeding three inches occurred in a narrow strip running for about 85 miles in a northeast direction from near Bristol and Chepstow, covering an area of nearly 1000 miles.—The, mild December. The mean temperature for the month in the north-west of London was 6°.2 above the average for 40 years, and the mean maximum and mean minimum exceeded the average by about the same amount. The month ranks with the mildest of the last half century, but was equalled by December 1898, and exceeded by December 1868. The number of days (19) on which the temperature exceeded 50° is unprecedented in this series of observations, for there were only 18 such days in 1868 and 17 in 1898. The present number of this popular magazine completes the 35th volume. The magazine, while retaining its special interest in rainfall, will in future deal more fully with all branches of meteorological science than it has done in the past.
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Scientific Serials . Nature 63, 338–339 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/063338b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/063338b0