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British Rainfall 1897 page22
large area with a fall of 100 inches or upwards. Far to the east as our isohyetal of 100 inches goes, we think it quite likely that gauges in the neighbourhood of Kentmere Reservoir, Blea Water and Kidsty Pike would prove that it ought to extend still further east. But as it is, it shows that falls exceeding 100 inches occur over more than 70 square miles.
Another fact, which will be a surpise to many meteorologists, is the great rainfall which Mr. S. A. Marshall's gauges prove to exist at the head of the Langdales. Mickleden gives the extremely high mean of 129.7 inches, or within five inches of that at Seathwaite, in Borrowdale; and as it is thoroughly supported by the other gauges in Langdale, there is apparently not much difference between Langdale and Borrowdale.
Probably few persons realize how very greatly the rainfall differs even with a few miles. We have taken three pairs of stations - Mosedale and The Stye, Eskdale and Mickleden, and Great Gable and the Stye - separated by 3 1/2, 2 1/2, and 1 1/4 miles respectively, and we find the increase per mile to be 28 inches, 21 inches and 71 inches respectively - this last representing 0.04 inch per yard!
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