METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS 1937.
CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY,
STATION: ROYAL OBSERVATORY, HONG KONG,
Lat. 22° 15′ N., Long, 114° 10′ 19′′ E.
Site of rain-gange
Height above Meau Sea-Lovel
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Air Temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit) from records of a themagraph,
standardized by rendings of whirling thermometers,
Menus of
Max.
1937.
and
Min.
Max.
Min.
lined.
Q
O
Excess above
Normal.
Absolme Extremes,
Low-
"'ap'est Max.
Day.
Lowest Min.
Day
Day.
Highest !th
Day.
Max. |
Π
:
D
Highest Wet Buil,
Temperatures for 24 hours ending Midu
Heights above ground: Thermis,h,=5° ft ;* Sun Recorder.h,=95 ft; Rain-gauge,h,=1·5 ft
Rainfall,
Excess
Total. above
Normal.
Daily Day
Max.
Weather, No, of Days of
Bright Sunshine,
Fog.
Ground Frost.
Daily Mean.
Total
Për
Total.'
Possi-
cent,
ble.
10.10.
12).. 1.TH.
Ir. lir.
22
lir.
January
66-3
58.0
62.1 +18 761
6
48.5
55'9 10
63.9
6
February
66.2
619
+23
78-
24
45'9
2
+9'3 14
674
24
704 7210
70°2 4 37*9
7'9
245
4'5
1397
+
I
3376
30.6
2'7
1
March..
68.6
650
2+
510
12 615
26
69+
103*1
32
3180
749
87'3 + 1310
511
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לי
2
April
76+
7215
86
21
39'7
6
62'4
53'0
ら
76.2 22
14
Yorz 574 So'g
3716
May
8.4 0
752
7976
Jou
858
78'3
JJuly
534
Angust
September 870
86'1 79* 8215 780
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897 27.28
70*8
22,20
824
441512
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Naro 28275
35
379'1
97
947
2
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15972
+04
90'0
30
710
82-7
16
82'3 336'9
39
405'5
913 2;
7570
19
+
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2
75'9
N
22
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90'6
749
2
October
8275 73'5 780
+1.3
89-0
62'0
74'30
Nuvuniber December
70.0
76% 66.7 | 716 65.5
+14
84118,19 5372 2+
+
+ 2.1
76-8
527
17
02.0 62** 22
748
82% 81.1 80-6 2 6
3
840 | 3646
S21,25 830 | 490·6
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57'4 513
120*2
30
+109'+
10+ 0
36.8
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2
+
2376
58
+ 33 629
+12'9
23
+6
9
123 2
31
398.6
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26.3
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367'1
75
63-6
55
6875
154
138 197 15
3*4 1 166'0
50
LATA O
359'2
330.8
3326
Year.
Totale.
Meaus.
7871 бу 73.9
+1+
Extremes
Aug.
Feb.
Feb.
June
93'0 2 439 2 49-3 14 827 16 84'0
3095'5 - 67·6
Sept.
150'5 2
14+ +3
40 z8
:
.1894*1
+420.0
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The Royal Olıservatory is situated on a hillock, 100 feet high, near the southern extremity of the Kowloon Peninsula. To the South is Hong Kong Island, consisting of a range of hills running east and west, with peaks frem 1000 16 1800 feet high. The nearest point on this range is 24 miles from the Observatory, Five miles to the eastward of the Observatory, where another small peninsula projects southward, is a range of hills from 700 to 1000 feet high. To the North a range of hills from 200 to 400 feet high stretches dcross the peninsula a mile from the Observatory. From 3 to 20 miles farther North the ground is hilly over the greater part of the peninsula with peaks from 2000 to 3000 feet high. To the westward of the Observatory the hills on Lantau Island, 10 miles distant, rise to 2000 feet.
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