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AN analysis of the rainfall for the year is given covering the whole of the British Isles. The year was decidedly wet, being the wettest year since 1916 except in Ireland. The largest excesses occurred in the west. There were more days with rain than in any other year since comparable statistics began in 1903. The average monthly rainfall during the year over the British Isles as a whole varied from 6.5 in. in February to 1.4 in. in June; only two months, March and June, showed considerable deficiencies. February 1923 is said to be probably the wettest February on record. Rainfall maps for the British Isles are given for each month, as well as for the summer and winter seasons and for the year.
Meteorological Office: Air Ministry. British Rainfall, 1923. The Sixty-third Annual Volume of the British Rainfall Organisation. Report on the Distribution of Rain in Space and Time over the British Isles during the Year 1923, as recorded by about 5000 Observers in Great Britain and Ireland.
(M.O. 269.) Pp. xxii + 256. (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1924.) 15s. net.
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H., C. Meteorological Office: Air Ministry British Rainfall, 1923 The Sixty-third Annual Volume of the British Rainfall Organisation Report on the Distribution of Rain in Space and Time over the British Isles during the Year 1923, as recorded by about 5000 Observers in Great Britain and Ireland . Nature 115, 491 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115491a0
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