winds, are normally experienced several times in each summer owing to the passage of typhoons at varying distances from the Colony.
The mean monthly temperature varies from 59°F in February to 82°F in July, the average for the year being 72°F. The temperature does not frequently rise above 95°F, and very seldom falls below 40°F. In spring and summer the humidity is persistently high, at times exceeding 95%, while in the early winter it may fall as low as 20%. The mean monthly duration of sunshine varies from 94 hours in March to 217 hours in October.
During 1949 rainfall was only 1.53 inches below normal but its distribution throughout the year was markedly irregular. Large deficits in March, May and July were counterbalanced by large surpluses in February, June, September and November.
The year was warmer than
than average with a mean temperature of 72.9°F as against the normal 71.9°F; no exceptionally high or low temperatures were recorded.
The only occasion on which sustained gales occurred was during the first six hours of September 8th when a typhoon passed 50 miles south of the Colony. The maximum gust recorded at the Royal Observatory was 81 knots from the east north east.
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