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Excerpt from Journal of the Scottish Meteorological Society The rainfall of Scotland in May 1906 was of quite an exceptional char acter. Its amount and distribution were, as usual, briefly described in the Report to the Registrar General for Scotland, but there were many interesting features in the month's record that could not be referred to there. That some more detailed remarks are desirable is indicated by the following quotations from the Report. In eastern districts generally rainfall was much the heaviest for May since observations were organised. There was a decided excess all over the country, but whilst this was moderate towards the north-west, to the south-east of a line drawn from about Elgin to Loch Ryan, all stations had much more than twice, and some more than thrice, their normal amounts. The absence of heavy falls at nearly all west coast stations was remarkable. It may be explained here that the Report to the Registrar is based chiefly on the statistics that are published along with it, and that the greater number of the Society's rainfall observers send in their records at the end of each year. The work of these additional observers is of great value, and all of them were good enough to transmit in advance a detailed account of the rainfall of May in their various districts. Such courtesy was much appreciated, and special thanks are due to the Water Trust engineers of the larger towns who supplied numerous returns. It is a matter of extreme regret that these records cannot be printed in the present Journal, but all have been examined and utilised; they will appear in the next issue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Why did large numbers of Scots leave a temperate climate to live permanently in parts of the world where greater temperature extreme was the norm? The long nineteenth century was a period consistently cooler than now, and Scotland remains the coldest of the British nations. Nineteenth-century meteorologists turned to environmental determinism to explain the persistence of agricultural shortage and to identify the atmospheric conditions that exacerbated the incidence of death and disease in the towns. In these cases, the logic of emigration and the benefits of an alternative climate were compelling. Emigration agents portrayed their favoured climate in order to pull migrants in their direction. The climate reasons, pressures and incentives that resulted in the movement of people have been neither straightforward nor uniform. There are known structural features that contextualize the migration experience, chief among them being economic and demographic factors. By building on the work of historical climatologists, and the availability of long-run climate data, for the first time the emigration history of Scotland is examined through the lens of the nation’s climate. In significant per capita numbers, the Scots left the cold country behind; yet the ‘homeland’ remained an unbreakable connection for the diaspora.