Abstract
THE sixty-sixth volume of “British Rainfall,” which deals with the year 1926, follows the lines of earlier volumes and is mainly statistical. There are tables and diagrams giving the total rainfall in each month, and for the whole year. The monthly totals are for nearly four hundred stations evenly distributed over the British Isles, while the annual totals are for nearly five thousand stations. The monthly evaporation from a free water surface, and the amount of rain percolating through depths of twenty, forty, and sixty inches of soil, in relation to the rainfall of each month, appear for a dozen stations. Covering as they do a variety of soils, these figures provide information of considerable horticultural interest. The annual rainfall statistics, on the other hand, continue to constitute indispensable information for engineering firms dealing with water-supply. An interesting analysis of heavy falls of rain in short periods is given (pp. 44-54). It includes figures for 1926 as well as for previous years. Falls of an inch in ten minutes nave apparently occurred on several occasions, though not in 1926, and there is one instance of a quarter of an inch descending in a minute and a half.
Meteorological Office: Air Ministry. British Rainfall, 1926: the Sixty-sixth Annual Volume of the British Rainfall Organisation. Report on the Distribution of Rain in Space and Time over the British Isles during the Year 1926 as recorded by about 5000 Observers in Or eat Britain and Ireland.
(M.O. 295.) Issued by the Authority of the Meteorological Committee. Pp. xv + 293. (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1927.) 15s. net.
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Meteorological Office: Air Ministry British Rainfall, 1926: the Sixty-sixth Annual Volume of the British Rainfall Organisation Report on the Distribution of Rain in Space and Time over the British Isles during the Year 1926 as recorded by about 5000 Observers in Or eat Britain and Ireland. Nature 121, 88 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121088a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/121088a0