Excerpt from Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Society, 1876-77, Vol. 2: Part I The heaviest monthly fall in 1876 was in December - nearly 7 inches. That month also showed the largest departure from the average. It was the wettest December of the series. The heaviest diurnal fall occurred on the 19th of August, when a succession of thunderstorms yielded over two inches of rain. But the quantity on that day seems to have varied remarkably in different localities, having been at Ashley Down, on the authority of Mr. W. F. Denning, more than three and a half inches. Excluding days on which the fall was less than a hundredth of an inch, it appears that one hundred and seventy-nine days were more or less rainy. On an average, therefore, rain fell on nearly every second day throughout the year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.