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SUMMARY OF NOTES
FROM MONTHLY RECORDS SUPPLIED BY
F. CAMPBELL-BAYARD, Esq., F.R.Met.Soc.,
and Honorary Secretary of the Croydon Natural History
and Scientific Society.
January.—First 20 days mild and showery; latter part
cold with snow and sleet and stormy.
February.—Very warm and wet, with a large number
of rainy days. Rainfall highest since 1900 and more
than double the average.
March.—1st—18th wet and mild, remainder cold and
dry.
April.—Cold and sunless. Very heavy rainfall and
thunderstorm on 16th.
May.—First half cold and showery with white frosts;
second half cool and dry.
June.—1st—10th cloudy, but little rain; nth—23rd
warm and dry; the rest cold and showery.
July.—Cloudy and cool. First len days showery; next
ten dry, cloudy, and cold; 20th—27H1 showery; then
fine to the end. Comparatively sunless month.
August.—Cloudy, cool, and showery to 6th, then
rather finer till 22nd, and then wet and stormy.
September.—Extraordinarily dry, rather cool, and
sunless.
October.—Exceedingly warm and sunless.
November.—The coldest for a number of years, one
record states for 34 years.
December—One of the wettest and warmest for many
years. In the last 25 years only 1886 and 1901 were
wetter, and 1898 and 1900 warmer.