Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society Vol 32 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Vol. 32 The rainstorm which visited the East of Ireland on Thursday and Friday, August 24 and 25, 1905, was of such exceptional intensity that some more detailed account of it than has already been published may prove of interest to the Fellows of the Royal Meteorological Society. By way of preface, it may be stated that the glorious summer of 1905 passed away with the passing of July, and that, unlike the preceding three months, August proved for the most part very unsettled, rainy, and cool. The disturbances which reached our shores from the Atlantic were numerous, but, as a rule, of no great intensity, so that they brought wet weather rather than wind-storms. In the Monthly Weather Report of the Meteorological Office for August it is stated that the rainfall was above the average at three-fourths of the stations in Great Britain, and at nearly every station in Ireland, the excess at some western stations being between 2 inches and 4 inches. Thunderstorms also were numerous and visited nearly all districts, being very severe in some instances and accompanied by heavy local rains. It is especially noteworthy that the great majority of the atmospheric disturbances of the month, instead of skirting the Atlantic seaboard of Ireland and Scotland on a north-easterly course as is usual, came ashore on various parts of our south-western coasts and travelled eastwards or north eastwards across the country. The disturbance which caused the torrential rainfall about to be described was sighted off the shores of Kerry and Cornwall on the morning of Thursday, August 24. At 8 am. of Friday, the 25th, it was central near the Scilly Islands, where the barometer had fallen gradually to 29 58 ins. Thence it travelled slowly northwards up St George's Channel, its centre passing near Dublin early on the morning of Saturday, tho 26th (Fig. 1). 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.