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THE Report of the Falmouth Observatory Committee to the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society and the Falmouth Town Council for 1935 is a small booklet which includes meteorological notes and tables for that year. The Observatory possesses records for various meteorological elements that extend back so far as 1871, from which sixty-five year averages have been computed. These are included in the publication, and are used as a basis for comparison of each of the past five years with the sixty-five years in question. It may be noted that 1935 completes one of the lustra recommended as a basis for such comparisons by the International Meteorological Congress of 1887. The rainfall figures show that only one of these five years (1931) was wetter than the average, and by only a small margin, and those for atmospheric pressure show that 1935 was the only one that had not a substantial excess of pressure. Temperature was above the average in each year; the mean for the lustrum was 51-9°, which is identical with the mean for the previous lustrum, this figure being 1-2° above the average. It is interesting to note that temperature at Falmouth has been above the normal for thirteen successive years. The outstanding event of the year 1935 was the snowstorm of May 17. The cold was very much less severe on that day at Falmouth than over most of the country, for temperature there did not fall below 35° in the screen; but on May 14 there was an unusually late ground frost, and this caused very severe damage to crops in some parts of Cornwall. In the section dealing with sunshine, reference is made to the fact that, according to an Air Ministry Pamphlet (No. 69), in two respects Falmouth is the most favoured place in the British Isles in that it has the smallest number of sunless days and the highest number of days with sunshine of more than three, six, and nine hours' duration. Cornwall, in addition to considerable immunity from frost, escapes extremes of heat; at Falmouth the temperature has reached 80° in only eight years out of the last sixty-five.
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Work of the Falmouth Observatory. Nature 137, 1026 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1371026a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1371026a0