British Rainfall 1896, p.20
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British Rainfall 1896 page 20
wet ones below. On the whole we think that 90 inches is the most probable amount. STATION II. - Sca Fell Pike (Broad Crag). - This is 600 yards N.E. of Station I. An 8-inch gauge, capable of holding 50 inches of rain, was erected here at the end of 1879, but it became useless in three years. It indicated a mean rainfall of 114 inches, or about twenty inches more than those on the Pike, and this seems reasonable because (a) this gauge was much better adapted to collect snow, and (b) both by its N.E. position, and by its being about 200 ft. below the summit, it was not nearly so windy a site as Station I. STATION III. Lingmell. - One of Dr. Miller's stations on the western slope of Sca Fell, between it and Wastwater, and at rather more than half the altitude of the Pike; mean fall about 90 inches. STATION IV. Esk Hause. - One of Mr. Fletcher's stations, E.N.E. of the Pike, and 600 ft. below it. As the prevalent wind is W.S.W., this station was slightly sheltered and the mean is 85 inches. STATION V. Great End. - Another of Mr. Fletcher's stations, very high (2,982 ft.), almost on the watershed line, and very much exposed; to the N.E. of it the ground falls 1,000 ft. in very little more than that distance, i.e., at an average angle of nearly 45°. Mean fall 66 inches. STATION VI. Sprinkling Tarn (sometimes called Sparkling Tarn). This station established by Dr. Miller, is lower than any yet mentioned, except Lingmell. It shows greater rainfall than any of them, and the records are generally very consistent, the mean being 122 inches. Possibly the rain clouds blown from Wastdale up Lingmell Beck partly go over this gauge, and partly over the Styhead pass into Borrowdale. STATION VII. Lingmell Beck, Brant Rigg. - This station, long discontinnued, was near the bottom of the valley, well open to the W., and before there had been much of the rise towards the Styehead pass; the mean here was a little over 80 inches. STATION VIII. Lingmell Beck, Gabel Hause. - The guage formerly at Station VII. was moved by Mr. Maitland further up the valley, and placed at precisely the same altitude as the Stye gauges, which have to be described later on. At Station VIII. the rainfall was not very different from that at VII., but a trifle more, being about 84 inches. STATION IX. Styehead Tarn. - Here we get a great increase in the rainfall. This station is only about as much higher than |
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