THE WEATHER AT HOME.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2060, 30 September 1880, Page 3

THE WEATHER AT HOME.

A letter received by the last Suez mail is published in a Dunedic paper. The writer a resident in Huntingdonshire—says:—"l remember telling'you last year what a wet season we had been having. This year it has been worse. For the last two months we have had nothing but tempests day after day, such, os have not been known in the memory of man. An immense quantity of hay has been swept away from the meadows, and the farmers wish that what is left had been carried away also, as it is good for nothing. Ido not suppose that there is a ton of really good hay this season anywhere in this part of the country. Towards the south and west the weather has been better. I thought I was going to have one of the finest crops of potatoes I had ever grown ; but twice in a fortnight my ground has been under water, three or four feet deep." An Isle of Ely correspondent says : —" More rain fell in July than in the first five months of the year put together, the quantities being 6.67 and 5.74 inches respectively. In June the fall was 2 47 inches, so that the whole fall of the first six months of the year was only 1.54 inches in excess of that of July alone. There were only six days in July on which rain did not fall ; and O" the 14f,h half an inch fell in an hour. We shall not be surprised if the yield of wheat is from 20 to 25 per cent, less than it might reasonably have been estimated at on July Ist ; potatoes are seriously diseased ; oats and barley are generally good crops." __^__^______