1928 — Page 429

Lat. 22° 18' N., Long, 114° 10′ 19′ E,

Beight

Site of rain-gauge

love Meau Sea-Level

| 11.=103 ft.

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS 1928.

CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY.

STATION: ROYAL OBSERVATORY, Hong Kong,

Temperatures for 24 bours ending Midu.

Heights above ground; Therms,1,=5 ft ; Sun Recorder.l ̧=35 ft; Rain-gange, b, =1-5 fi,

( Zb 1 )

1928.

and

| Min.

Max Min.

t'om- bined.

Excess above

Normal,

Air Temperature (în degrees Fahrenheit) from whirling thermometers.

1 Means of Max.

Absolute Extremes.

Digital

102.

[Day.

Lowest

30in

Day.

Lowest Max.

Day.

Highest Shu.

Day

Highest Wet Bulb.

Rainfall.

Weather, No. of Days of

Bright Sunshine.

Excess

Daily

Total. Above

hornel.

Day.

Max.

Precipitation.

Excess above

Normal.

Snow,

Hail.

Thunderstorm.

For

Ground Frost.

Daily Menn.

Per

Total

Total Posei- We.

•

C

lir. |15.

T

lir.

TIL. II.

Juntttery

1 659

57-8

618

450

53-5

671 30

17

11

February

63°1

550

59'0

- C'I

+50

March...... | 67:3

T

60'2

63°

2

5373 IC

April

+

758

6-8

716 +09

86-

30 | 60*2

May

740

779

+01

Gatų

649 3

740

June

: 843

874

-

םי1

71.6!

July

885 79'9

+1

+16

Y2'6

30

764 14.15

1

August

875

8;:1

September

86-2 779

+0'9

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סילי

30

סי:8

+00

2.0 30

39'3 3

7 79°0 30,31 19

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114 39+ 27

8

3:0

719 | 1317 25

+ 369 789

93'7 25 73°3 2-8

28

22

7

86.3

23

794104'3

39 472 817 | +676 +1610 1941 827 3843

-

2}

1

+3

129'1

34

337-6 329-6 3716 3791

!

6

29

+3 | 133'9

33

408-5

14'5 100:6

22

6

3'9

1760

++

4940

848 1214 - 34477

37 3

1

3

9'1

282-8

+129

36 3279

-

378

SIZ

5

19

+

6-6

2048 51

398.6

J

Ortober

75'6

- 19

875

66.8 21

3

99'+

11'0

- 1467

241

1 ľ

2

6.7

19917 5+

3671

November

6517 6918

822

December

705

619

66.2

+10

78.8 15

575 537

16

76'9

|

35

3

+

1875 | 2630 | 73

359°2

5

3

70'0

110 411 0'5 1

3'9 7'0

1772 54

330-8

216-8 65

3326

Year.

Totals.

Alana.

68-9

710 +0.6

laaly

Jun.

Aug.

Extremes

92-6

3}

jo 450

3375

Felt

30 Feb.1

839 ། 848

180712-3702

132

- TO

22 23

2036-6

++31-6

May

+6

40

104'1 20

1

The Royal Observatory is situated on a hillock, 100 feet high, near the southern extremity of the Kowloon Peninsular, about 1000 yards from the harbour to the South, 500 yards Irom the mist side of the peninsular and 900 yards from the west side. The surrounding country is flat, except to the North, where a range of hills from 200 to 100 feet high stretches across the peninsular a mile front the Observatory From 3 to 20 miles farther North the ground is hilly over the greater part of the peninsular with peaks from 2000 to 3000 feet high. Five miles to the eastward of the Observatory, where another small peninsular projects southward, is a range of hills from 709 to 1000 feet high. To the westward of the Observatory, the bills on Lantau Island, 10 miles distant, rise to 3000 feet.

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