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Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine for October contains a fifth annual table of the climate of the British Empire, giving a summary of the daily observations at sixteen stations, distributed over the globe, for the year 1886. The extremes show some very interesting facts, from which we select the following:—Adelaide has the highest maximum temperature in the shade, viz. 112°·4; the highest temperature in the sun, 174°·5; the least rainfall, 14·42 inches; and the lowest humidity, 56 per cent. Winnipeg has the lowest shade temperature, –44°·6; the greatest annual range, 147°·6; and the lowest mean daily temperature, 33°·2. Colombo (Ceylon) has the highest mean daily temperature, 81°·0. Bombay has the greatest rainfall, 99·74 inches. London occupies the unenviable position of the dampest station, 80 per cent. The same magazine contains a discussion of the severe thunderstorm which visited London on August 17. The greatest rainfall on this occasion was 2·08 inches at Wimbledon, and the least at Hackney, 0·27 inch. In connection with the climatology of the British Empire, it may not be generally known that the Annual Reports of the Army Medical Department contain meteorological summaries for a number of stations mostly in the northern hemisphere, e.g. the Mediterranean, Africa (including Egypt), and the East and West Indies. The last Report published is for the year 1885, and contains the results of observations and the extremes from nineteen stations.
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Meteorological Notes . Nature 37, 38–40 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037038a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/037038a0