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THIS volume, the sixty-ninth of a valuable series, gives a full account of the rainfall of the year 1929 on the basis of records from 5180 stations. It includes maps, tables, and descriptive matter showing the distribution of rainfall each month and for the whole year and its relation to the average, together with studies of heavy falls of rain on particular days, of the number of days with rain, and of well-marked spells of wet and dry weather during the year. There are also records of evaporation and of percolation through the soil. The period from January to September was drier than any similar period in the last sixty years; but that from October to December was the wettest on record for the period. In fact, an enormous quantity of rain fell during this period in the south-west of England and South Wales.
Air Ministry: Meteorological Office. British Rainfall 1929: the Sixty-ninth Annual Volume of the British Rainfall Organization. Report on the Distribution of Rain in Space and Time over the British Isles during the Year 1929, as recorded by over 5000 Observers in Great Britain and Ireland.
(M.O. 325.) Issued by the Authority of the Meteorological Committee. Pp. xix + 298 + 4 plates. (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1930.) 15s. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 127, 624 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127624c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/127624c0