The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . nter, or March to , the rain falls during the evening, beginning aboutsunset. The number of thunderstorms averages eight duringthe .summer and six during the winter months, they rarelyoccurring during June, July and August, but not unfrequentlyduring May, September and October. The corresponding details for other places in the Colony are :— Rainstorms. Thunderstorms. .Summer. Winter. Year. Summer. Winter. Year Stanger 29 16 45 4 3 7 Vcrulam - 38 ^5 ^>3 6 6 12 Richmond ... 33 20 53 8 3 I I 62
The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . nter, or March to , the rain falls during the evening, beginning aboutsunset. The number of thunderstorms averages eight duringthe .summer and six during the winter months, they rarelyoccurring during June, July and August, but not unfrequentlyduring May, September and October. The corresponding details for other places in the Colony are :— Rainstorms. Thunderstorms. .Summer. Winter. Year. Summer. Winter. Year Stanger 29 16 45 4 3 7 Vcrulam - 38 ^5 ^>3 6 6 12 Richmond ... 33 20 53 8 3 I I 62 28 90 24 8 32 Harding- 43 23 66 6 -) 8 Port Shepstone 80 26 106 14 7 21 Umzinto 75 24 99 14 10 24 Maritzburg ... 61 32 93 16 4 20 Creytown ... 47 0 n 69 18 6 24 Estcourt .. 56 25 81 16 6 22 Ladysmith ... 28 11 39 26 7 33 Newcastle ... 52 21 73 23 5 20 Of late years the number of thunderstorms occurring onthe coast districts of Natal has undergone a markeddiminution, especially in the neighbourhood of Durban,where they are scarcely half as common as twelve j^ears ago,. Middlelirook /EST STREET, LOOKING WEST, OURBAT and scarcely a third of the number which used to occurtwenty-five years ago. The Observatory is in 2 h. 4 m. East Longitude fromGreenwich, and in 29° 50 47 South Latitude, and the timekept all over the Colony is Durban Observatory mean time,which is 2 hours 4 minutes in advance of Greenwich time. On the slope of the Berea, below the Observatory, are theGovernment Laboratories and Assay Furnaces, where thereare carried out all the chemical anal}ses and assays requiredfor use in the various Government Departments, the mostimportant being those connected with the Administration ofJustice, the Department of Mines, and the examination of thevarious powerful high explosives passing through the Customs. Govern-ment(liemicalLabora-tories. It would be superfluous to further particularise the detailsof the town, for any visitor, (mi landing, will not havethe slii^htes
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