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IN January last an appeal was made for reports of any thunder or lightning which might be observed before April 1, 1927 (NATURE, 119, Jan. 22, 1927, p. 123). The census of storms was carried out in conjunction with the Meteorological Office, and efforts were made to obtain the co-operation of observers in all parts of the British Islands. Considering the whole of the six months from October 1926 to March 1927, thunderstorms occurred somewhere in the British Isles on 96 days out of 182. Details for the individual months are given in the following Table:
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BOWER, S. Winter Thunderstorms. Nature 120, 842 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120842b0
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