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Portland Year Book 1905
Weather 1904


Rainfall in 1904

There is considerable variation in the Rainfall as taken in the different parts of the Island:

 

High Lighthouse

"Rosslyn"

Admiralty Breakwater
 

(inches)

(inches)

(inches)

January

3.50

1.56

3.75

February

4.47

2.82

5.62

March

1.14

1.12

1.10

April

1.30

0.66

1.17

May

2.24

2.43

2.83

June

0.83

0.88

0.95

July

2.92

2.43

3.14

August

3.67

3.85

3.52

September

1.54

1.80

1.89

October

2.81

2.69

2.88

November

1.12

0.97

1.54

December

2.76

3.73

2.98

Total Rainfall

28.30

24.79 [24.94]

31.37

Wet Days

187

115

159

For these figures (which appeared in his annual report) the Medical Officer of Health was indebted to Mr. Batten, Meteorological Station, Portland High Lighthouse ; the Rev. W. R. M. Waugh, F.R.A.S., " Rosslyn, " Spring Gardens ; and Mr C. Minard, Superintending Civil Engineer, H. M. Breakwater, Portland.

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