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The outstanding feature of the weather of June was its abnormal dryness. … The fall for the month amounted to less than 6% of the average over the whole of England and Wales if parts of the extreme north and eastern counties from the Wash to Beachy Head were excepted. … In many districts in the south and south-west of England and in the south of Wales the month was rainless.

“Metric Units. – The Meteorological Office, under the direction of Sir Napier Shaw, has introduced a new system of units for the official records of British Meteorology based on absolute measures and the metric system.

Success is by no means a necessary result of efforts to secure it.