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September.—The month was nearly equally divided between two
different types of weather. During the first half the conditions
were generally of an unsettled character, under the influence of
various disturbance?, so that rain was frequent and sometimes
heavy. High pressure systems were in the ascendant throughout
nearly the whole of the second half, the weather was much
quieter, finer and drier, the days usually being very sunny, but in
the closing week many parts of England were affected by dense
fogs. There were no instances of exceptionally high or low
temperatures. A remarkable feature was the almost entire
absence of thunderstorms, including thunder or lightning alone, the
very few instances recorded being local and unimportant. Taking
the whole month, pressure was above the normal nearly everywhere
; the winds were mainly Easterly, Southerly and Westerly ;
temperature was above the normal in Scotland, below it elsewhere ;
rainfall was deficient over the greater part of the Kingdom ; and
there was an excess of bright sunshine.
October.—Unusually quiet atmospheric conditions prevailed over the
British Isles during the month of October, a fact intimately
associated with the very frequent visits of systems of high barometric
pressure, which were more numerous than for a long time
past. They were, as a rule, accompanied by much cloud and
dulness, and the air consequently was rather soft and humid,
although winds from between North-East and South-East were
pretty frequent. Mist and fog were of more frequent occurrence
than for some years past. Hail fell occasionally in places, but
there was no distinctly cold weather, and night frosts were rare
and unimportant. For the whole month pressure was everywhere
above the normal ; the winds were mainly Southerly to Westerly ;
temperature was generally in excess ; rainfall was nearly everywhere
deficient, largely so in many localities ; and bright sunshine
was variable in amount in various districts.
November.—The month of November was marked by exceedingly
variable atmospheric conditions throughout our Islands. Very
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