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THE WEATHER IN 1951. T h e Belstead Hall meteorological report for June says the weather was mainly dry and very sunny, but temperatures were, in general, below the average. Total rainfall was 1.13 ins. (1.75 average), and the sunshine total 254 hours (average 206), the latter being, with the exception of last year, the highest in the available records (49 years). Mean temperature was 57.5 degrees (average 58.6 degrees), and the highest screen maximum temperature was 75 degrees on the 14th. F r o m January Ist this year the cumulative total of rain is 13.60 ins. (average 10.69 ins.), and the cumulative sunshine 798 hours (average 821.0).—R. R. WILSON, 6 July. Temperatures of 80 degrees and over, recorded in Ipswich, made 17 July the hottest day of the year. T h e Roundwood Meteorological Station, Ipswich, reported 80 degrees. At Copdock, 79 degrees was shown, and at Felixstowe R . A . F . Station, 80 degrees. T e n grass fires occupied Suffolk firemen during yesterday ; six occurred in Ipswich, and other calls were to Bentley, Newmarket, Palgrave and Felixstow. A total of .43 of an inch of rain was recorded at Belstead after 1 September evening's downpour in the Ipswich area. M r . R. R. Wilson reported that 3.40 inches of rain feil last month, the wettest August since 1946. Average rainfall for the month from 1902 to 1941 was 2.28 inches. Roundwood Station in Ipswich reports that total rainfall in August was 2.09 inches. T h e heaviest rainfall was 1.14 inches on the 6th : rain feil on 17 days. T h e wärmest day was the 2nd with a maximum temperature of 7 7 F , and the coldest day was the 1 Ith with the highest reading 6 2 F . T h e wärmest night was 3 Ist J u l y / I s t August with a maximum of 61F., while the coldest night was 16th/17th with only 4 5 F . Temperatures were above 70 degrees in Ipswich on 3 September (local paper, 4 September). A cloudburst flooded roads and houses at Mildenhall on 13 September afternoon. Mr. T . Carroll, said : " T h e rain was falling straight down in huge sheets, and visibility was practically nil. T h e water was spurting out in 18-inch-long spurts from the drain pipes. It looked to me like a cloudburst." At the mill and the Ship Inn the road was flooded to a depth of a foot, and in Parker's laundry, about 100 yards from the mill, six inches of water covered the floor. Out in the road one small van became marooned for a short time. A foot of water also stood in Police Station Square. In both districts houses were flooded and the mobile p u m p went round pumping them out. A foot of water stood in Junction Road, the gardens of which were also flooded. At the Meteorological. Office at Mildenhall, 3 inches of rain were recorded between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m., while at the Waterworks in Bury, .32 inches were recorded in half-an-hour.—Ipswich paper, 14 Sept.