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THE perennial interest in the chances of good weather in our short English summer is quickened by the advance of spring. While the weather map is the vade-mecum of the forecaster of to-morrow's rain, it cannot help us to arrange our holidays in advance. We can, however, derive a great deal of information from a study of the accumulated statistics of the past.
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The question is dealt with in two recent papers: œ The Distribution over the British Isles in Time and Space of the Average Number of Days with Rain. œ British Rainfall, 1926, pp. 260–279, and œ The Distribution over the British Isles of the Average Number of Days with Rain during each Month of the Year, Q.J.R. Meteor. Soc., 54; 1928.
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GLASSPOOLE, J. The Frequency of Rain over the British Isles. Nature 121, 591–594 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121591a0
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