Air Ministry: Meteorological Office British Rainfall, 1927: the Sixty-seventh Annual Volume of the British Rainfall Organization Report on the Distribution of Rain in Space and Time over the British Isles during the Year 1927 as recorded by about 5000 Observers in Great Britain and Ireland

Abstract

THE volume of “British Rainfall” for 1927, which has just been published, is the sixty-seventh that has appeared since the British Rainfall Organization was founded by the late Mr. G. J. Symons in 1859, in order to standardise the methods of measurement of rainfall in the British Isles and to provide a means of ensuring that the observations made by amateurs should be preserved and be made available for purposes of research and statistical inquiry. When it is considered that the Organization, in spite of every effort, does not secure the co-operation of all private observers, and that notwithstanding this limitation no fewer than 4970 records are published in this volume, some idea is formed of the valuable material that would be largely wasted every year without some such organisation. It is satisfactory to note that 97 more records have been secured than were available for the 1926 volume.

Air Ministry: Meteorological Office. British Rainfall, 1927: the Sixty-seventh Annual Volume of the British Rainfall Organization. Report on the Distribution of Rain in Space and Time over the British Isles during the Year 1927 as recorded by about 5000 Observers in Great Britain and Ireland.

(M.O. 305.) Issued by the Authority of the Meteorological Committee. Pp. xvii+290. (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1928.) 15s. net.