The rainfall in Natal

Abstract

The weather of Natal shows a distinct eighteen year periodical fluctuation in rainfall similar to that which has been traced in so many other parts of the world. Thus the epochs of heaviest rainfall in Natal centre round the years 1855-56, 1873-74, and 1892,-93, which are separated by intervals of .about eighteen to nineteen years, and during the last two years there have, occurred many indications that there will be a similar exceptionally heavy rainfall centreing round the year 1910-11, at a similar interval of about eighteen years.