METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS 1939.
CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY,
Lat. 22° 18′ N., Long. 114° 10′ 19′′ E.
Site of rain-gange
Height{ahovo Mean Sea-Level
I
11.-103 ft.
Air Temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit) from records of a thermograph. standardized by readings of whirling thermometers.
Means of
Max.
1939.
aml
Min.
Com-
Mux.
Min.
bined.
Exrces above
Normal.
STATION ROYAL OBSERVATORY, HONG KONG.
Absolute Extremes.
Low-
High st Maz.
Lowest Day. Min.
Day いっし
Max.
Day. Man.
High s
¡Day.
Highest Wet Bulk,
Rainfall.
Heights above ground: Thermis,h,=5 ft; Sun Recorder.h.=35 ft; Rain-gange,b,=1·5 ft,
Excess
Total,' above
Normal.
Daily Day.
Max.
|
Temperatures for 24 hours ending Midn.
Weather, No. of Days of
Bright Sunshine.
Precipitation.
Excess above
Normal,
▸
+
C
M.. I 01.111.
ut.fl.
January
6
$6.8
61°1
February
67
59'2
635
March....
684
619
63°1
+++
+0*7
73.6
49*9 30
6
54'5
67*0
27'9
3'9
12'2
53'9
+-5
59'3
647
25
6gro
―
45°0
0:5
1
731
617
68.0
72.9
April
715 650
60
70'+
21
89'9 +147
7673 4013+2693| 143
17.8
10
15 20 13
26
Soro
May
725
76'7
23
Roro
Тиле
-8.2
$t"}
+01
89'5 30
78°0
19
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53302473 1387 219-6 1673 672
22
++++
7
10
July
878
83°1
+0**
940 13.14
August
Į
87
77'4
93'2
73'9 720 30
20
14
ZO
;
14
82.6
32275
619
90'5
ין
17
2
September.
! $6.0
SUS
+03
92'3
20
Oslober
| 832
787
+
918
16
64*7
58-9 30 31
November
-60
67+
+
870
7
53-8
December
63.8 | 56'9
62-9
73'-
17
52.0
80'2 76.7 7373 31 #6 625
ZO 649
82-8
30
8293256
36.5 36'5
10
+ 3
30
9=98
81.0
3
$2.0
79.8 748
634 10
78.3 10
75'7 66.8
-
-
12376 35-8
77'3 18'2 12216 + Sz'z | 102'1
C*0
1316 601
2
23
27.8
I
Your.
Total-.
:
Means,
687 730 +o's
July
Jan.
Jan.
Extremes.
940 13.14 49'9
6
54-5 6 82.S
!
Aug. 30
81.9
22023+ 619
Apr.
145'3
20
Snow.
Efail.
Thunderstormy,
Fog.
Ground Frost.
Daily Mean.
Total,!
Total
Per Possi-
cent.
ble.
br.
lir.
%
રે
h
+
130.2
39
337.6
+9135.2
+3
318.0
[ 2
14
44'1
12
3716
7
3"
91'3
24
379'1
6
3
+2
32
+08:5
4'51337
33
404'0
6+ 1976 48
41279
6.7206.8 5
398.6
6.2 185.7
367.1
6.6 203.8
4'1
57
359'2
1236
37
330*8
8.7269.2 81
332.6
8
40
28
1855-8
The Royal Observatory 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 bills ru ming east and west, with peaks from 1000 to 1800 feet high. The nearest point on this range is 2 miles from the Observatory. Five miles to the eastward of the "Observatory, where auther 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 across the peninsula a mile froin the Observathy. From 3 to 20 miles farther North the ground is hilly over the greater part of the peninsula with peaks from 2000 to 2000 foot high. To the westward of the Observatory the hills on Lantau Island, 10 miles distant, rise to 3000 feet.
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