[Dave K]

Browsing randomly came across this item which is an excerpt from the British Medical Journal of all places, published 20 January 1912. May not be of the slightest interest to anyone but here it is anyway! The summer of 1911 generally was very dry and even more so from April to September for England.

[BUTTERFLY]

I am afraid, even with printing out or magnifying the text, that I find it very hard to read; if you magnify the text it just becomes blurred. Is there any possibility of typing in the text or otherwise sharpening it up?

[Dave K]

BUTTERFLY, on 24 March 2012 - 14:29, said:

I am afraid, even with printing out or magnifying the text, that I find it very hard to read; if you magnify the text it just becomes blurred. Is there any possibility of typing in the text or otherwise sharpening it up?

You did click on the images to open them to full size? They should be clearly legible (unless your screen res is set to 400 x 300 or something!)? It's a screen capture from a PDF which means no chance of doing anything with the text I'm afraid (and sorry, not going to retype manually!).

EDIT: a direct hotlink to the images so they are in full size...can do nothing about the old school typeface though

This post has been edited by Big Dave's Gusset: 24 March 2012 - 14:52

[BUTTERFLY]

"You did click on the images to open them to full size"

Actually I didn't, but instead clicked on the 100% figure on the bottom taskbar which can go up to 400%, but all this did was to make the text larger but more blurred; for some reason this gives a different effect than clicking on the image itself, which does make the text easier to read.

Given that percentages varied from about 60% at Dundee to about 110% at Glenquoich, I wonder what the figures would have been in 1911 in the driest parts of Southern England? Possibly there was a similar contrast between there and NW Scotland as in 1921 and 2011. It would also be interesting to se figures for years when there was a similar contrast between NW and SE Britain but where the former was relatively drier; I believe this happened in 1937 (when rainfall percentages were around 60% at 1 or more places in NW Scotland, and around 150% in parts of Sussex) and 1958.

[HSEA2]

BUTTERFLY, on 25 March 2012 - 12:15, said:

"You did click on the images to open them to full size"

Actually I didn't, but instead clicked on the 100% figure on the bottom taskbar which can go up to 400%, but all this did was to make the text larger but more blurred; for some reason this gives a different effect than clicking on the image itself, which does make the text easier to read.

Given that percentages varied from about 60% at Dundee to about 110% at Glenquoich, I wonder what the figures would have been in 1911 in the driest parts of Southern England? Possibly there was a similar contrast between there and NW Scotland as in 1921 and 2011. It would also be interesting to se figures for years when there was a similar contrast between NW and SE Britain but where the former was relatively drier; I believe this happened in 1937 (when rainfall percentages were around 60% at 1 or more places in NW Scotland, and around 150% in parts of Sussex) and 1958.

Some stats
Cambridge Botanical Gardens 482.8mm (70.1mm under 61-90 average)
http://eca.knmi.nl/u...&stationid=1639
Oxford 538mm (94mm under 61-90 average)
http://eca.knmi.nl/u...R&stationid=274


The only ones I can find on KNMI in drier parts of England going back that far...

[HSEA2]

HSEA2, on 25 March 2012 - 12:34, said:

Some stats
Cambridge Botanical Gardens 482.8mm (70.1mm under 61-90 average)
http://eca.knmi.nl/u...&stationid=1639
Oxford 538mm (94mm under 61-90 average)
http://eca.knmi.nl/u...R&stationid=274


The only ones I can find on KNMI in drier parts of England going back that far...

To put that into perspective, the annual figures for the 11th year of this century for cambridge are

380.4mm at the Botanic Gardens
348.5mm at NIAB

so 1911 didnt look a notably dry year in my part of the world.

[Dave K]

HSEA2, on 26 March 2012 - 19:22, said:

To put that into perspective, the annual figures for the 11th year of this century for cambridge are

380.4mm at the Botanic Gardens
348.5mm at NIAB

so 1911 didnt look a notably dry year in my part of the world.

The EWP shows that spring and summer 1911 were rather dry but November and December were extremely wet. Here in Tonbridge the annual rainfall was 29.63" or 752mm which is around average for that period.