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The gales of the 21st.22nd, 26th.27th, and 29th.31st
were of considerable strength, and the rain.storms of the
24th and 29th were also heavy, the whole of England and
Wales being affected on the former date, and nearly all
parts of the United Kingdom on the latter.
Mean temperatures : Highest, 57.4° ; lowest, 43.9°.
Rainfall at Leyton, 2.92 inches.
November.—November was generally rough and unsettled,
but in the intervals between the departure and arrival of
the numerous cyclonic systems which came in from the
Atlantic the weather was often brilliantly fine, and, as a
result, the total duration of sunshine for the month was
nearly everywhere in excess of the average. Until about
the 18th the prevailing winds wer£ from the South.West or
West, often blowing with the force of a gale; between the
3rd and 7th, and more especially on the 5th, the storms
were in many places of considerable violence.
During the presence of this strong equatorial current
the thermometer was almost continuously above the
average, the only night frost of any consequence being
observed on the 11th. Rain fell daily in all districts, very
heavily on the 11th over the entire Southern half of England.
After the 18th a gradual but complete reversal took place
in the distribution of pressure, the barometer becoming
highest to the Northward, and lowest to the Southward,
of the United Kingdom.