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"BRITISH RAINFALL" makes a welcome reappearance (after a gap of six years, the latest preceding volume being that for 1939. There are some changes of format, and a number of the maps are missing ; but the essential features, so necessary in planning the best use of watet, remain. These include, besides the distribution of monthly, seasonal and annual rainfall and raindays, chapters on dry and wet spells, duration of rainfall, heavy falls, evaporation and percolation ; all are plentifully illustrated by tables, and there are still a good many maps. It is pleasing that the coloured chart of rainfall as a percentage of normal remains. But the text is necessarily curtailed, and well over half the volume consists of the "General Table" giving the annual totals of rain and raindays, and the long-period average rainfall for about 5,000 stations.
British Rainfall 1946
The Eighty-sixth Annual Volume of the British Rainfall Organisation. Report on the Distribution of Rain in Space and Time over Great Britain and Northern Ireland during the Year 1946 as recorded by about 5000 Observers. (Air Ministry Meteorological Office, M.O.495.) Pp. v+214. (London : H.M. Stationery Office, 1948.) 21s. net.
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British Rainfall 1946. Nature 163, 663 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163663a0
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