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FOR the British Isles as a whole, the rainfall of 1932 was 102 per cent of the average, the year forming the tenth successive one with a fall in excess. There were frequent dry spells during the year, but a very wet May brought widespread floods, especially in the Don valley in Yorkshire. In the matter of heavy storms and ‘cloud-bursts’, the year was somewhat milder than its two predecessors, but as usual provided a share. Thus on July 11, 4 -96 inches fell in two hours at Cranwell Aerodrome in Lincolnshire. Incidentally, the annual volumes of “British Rainfall” bear eloquent testimony to the fact that rain in England is far from always of that gentle character so often referred to by those familiar with the torrential downpours of tropical countries.
Air Ministry: Meteorological Office. British Rainfall 1932: the Seventy-second Annual Volume of the British Rainfall Organization. Report on the Distribution of Rain in Space and Time over the British Isles during the Year 1932 as recorded by over 5,000 Observers in Great Britain and Ireland.
(M.O. 355.) Issued by the Authority of the Meteorological Committee. Pp. xviii + 291. (London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1933.) 15s. net.
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B., L. Air Ministry: Meteorological Office British Rainfall 1932: the Seventy-second Annual Volume of the British Rainfall Organization Report on the Distribution of Rain in Space and Time over the British Isles during the Year 1932 as recorded by over 5,000 Observers in Great Britain and Ireland. Nature 132, 694 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132694a0
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