The rainfall of the last twenty years, as observed at
Moseley, near Birmingham, brings out the curious result that April is, on an average, the driest of our months, and September the wettest. This is the list of the months arranged in the order of dryness :—April, March, February, May, November, December, January, June, July, August, October, September. If this order were preserved on the result of much longer observa- tions than those of twenty years, we should have a right to expect that the rainfall would lessen steadily from January up to the end of April, making a great leap be- tween January and February ; would increase steadily from May to September, when it would reach its highest point ; would slightly decrease in October, greatly in November, and again slightly increase in December, which, however, is not so wet as January. That is not by any means the scale which the popular imagination would assign to the rainfall of the various months, April having got a great reputation for " showers," though it should apparently be famed, like March, for its dry winds, and September having won a golden reputation for bright, cool sunshine, instead of for the floods with which it is now credited.
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