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Ciel et Terre of July 16 contains an article by M. A. Lancaster, of the Royal Observatory of Brussels, on the intensity of tropical rainfall. There are many points in that zone where the yearly rainfall exceeds 120 inches; such amounts clearly indicate more or less continuous falls of great intensity. The author quotes various excessive amounts observed in periods of twenty-four hours and less, but we extract only a few of the principal falls, reduced to a period of one minute and expressed in inches:—Hong Kong, ˙047; Buitenzorg, ˙049; Newcastle (New South Wales), ˙071; Lahore; ˙095; Brussels, ˙114; London (Camden Square), ˙167. These figures show that the falls of rain in the tropics are not more intense than the extraordinary falls in our own parts, but the former generally exceed the latter in duration; hence the much greater absolute quantity recorded in equatorial regions.
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Scientific Serial. Nature 54, 359 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054359a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/054359a0