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THE rainfall here of October has been so remarkable that it seems worth while to place it on record in your columns. Rain fell on twenty-five days during the month, making a total fall of 10˙32 inches. As the annual rainfall on an average of eleven years is 31˙10 inches, it will be seen that very nearly one-third of this amount fell in one month. This is by far the highest amount I have recorded since I began to make records in January, 1878, the next highest month being August, 1879. On that occasion five inches fell in thirty hours on the 17th and 18th, and many bridges were carried away in Flintshire and Denbighshire, but the total fall for the month was only 7˙89 inches. Dr. Nicol, of Llandudno (six miles from here), who has registered the rainfall since, and including 1861, informs me that it amounted last month to 8˙56 inches there, this also being the highest month he has ever recorded.
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WALKER, A. A Remarkable Rainfall. Nature 47, 31 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/047031b0
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