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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

סי:*

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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