1929 — Page 451

Lat. 29° 18′ N., Long. 114′′ 10′ 19′′ E,

Site of rain-gauge

Fleight

ahove Meau Sen-Level

} H.=103 ft.

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS 1929.

CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY.

STATION ROYAL OBSERVATORY, HONG KONG.

Temperatures for 24 hours ending Midn.

Heights above ground; Therms.b,=3 ft; Sun Recorder.b,=35 f't; Rain-gauge, h,=1.5 ft.

Air Tomperature (in degrees Fahrenheit) from whirling thermometers.

Means of Max.

Absolute Extremes,

1929.

and

Min.

Com-

Max.

Min.

bined.

Excess above

Normal.

Rainfall.

Excess Total, above

Normal.

Daily Day.

Max.

Highest Max.

|Day.

Min.

Lowest Day.

Lowest!

Day.

Highest 3lio.

Day.

Max.

Weather, No. of Days of

Bright Sunshine.

Precipitation.

Excess above

Normnul,

Snow.

Hail.

Thunderstorm.

Fog.

Ground Frost.

Daily Maan.

Total.

Per

jeent

Toil Possi-

1 ble.

15

•

0

m.n. 11.01. m.In.

hr.

Ir. %

We

lir.

Jumary February

March.

66-9 59'+

63.1

744 [14,15 63.1 53.6 59'3 +o'z 76,0 24 70-6 61.1 65.8 +2'3

+27

56-0

64014

67'5 23.6

47'4

52-5

3

644 23

70'5 149

27

519

靠

60:3

73'5 z8

75"! 12.8

April

May Jung

79'4

July

78.1

August

85-8

76.5 67-8 73'1 +1+ 82.6 750 78-8 +1'3 89-9 25 832 +18 910 tz 82.0 -0'5 92.1 ४ $17

yo's

20

615 3

65.8

78-6 30

74:6 3071

9:8 30'9 8.3 60° 12'7 20 17'4 20

27

27

67'1 + 714

81.3 25

83.0 168-2 13574 564 3 7 +1

74*7 21,25) 784 74*+

83'1

12

83.6 106-5

-185'9 321

25 13

79'5

[

834 | 5766 |+2059 10176

22 22

21

79'9 4,22

SPI

13

September

854

816 +05

8

Ontober

80*6

November

3.2 63.7

7619

+0'3

86.1 16

74'5 30 69'5 23

81-8 6.13

S0-8

20

-8:3

844 5085 +1397 1817 8192742 + 275 83-1 779 3-6 -119-2

16 20

30

16

1

67-9

December

68.8 60-9 648

- 18 +16

79'5 2 78.1 15

500 12 +44

23

65.5 512 | 22

5

72*3 3

70°0 34'9 72'7 10*7

—

9:1 15.0

27'0 277

9

+

++++++

+2

5.3

1640 | 19

+

S

2.6

740

23

3376 3180

60

50 3716

517 1719

+5 379'1

50 | 153.8 6'9 1069

175'7 5-8 1798

38 | 408'5

404'0

+3

412'9

398.6

2

2015

367'1

9*3 288-6

359'z

+2

6

**

6:3 189-7 57 46

330-8

14310 +3

332'6

Totale.

Means.

117735

- 394'9,

I22

- 19

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27

30

|2144'9

+420′0

69'1 7371 +08

5'9

+9

July

Judy

Extremes.

gara

+++

Dee. 23

512 Doo

20

831 12 $44

1817

Aug, 16

|

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 from the east 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 from the Observatory. From 3 to 20 miles further 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 700 to 1000 feet high. To the westward of the Observatory, the hills on Lantau Island, 10 miles distant, rise to 3000 feet.

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