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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Marylebone 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE 3.—Weather Statistics, Year 1958.
TABLE 3.-Weather Statistics, Year 1958.
Station: Regent's Park.
Height of rain-gauge above mean sea level: 129 feet.
| 1958 | Air Temperature in Degrees Fahrenheit | Rainfall | Weather Number of Days | Sunshine | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Means of | Mean of A and B | Highest and Lowest | Most in a day | Rain _ | Snow or Sleet | Thunder heard | Fog (9h. G.M.T.) | Air Frost | Ground Frost | Gale, force 8 or more | Total | Daily Mean | Per cent. of Average* | |||||||
| A Max. | B Min. | Highest Max. | Date | Lowest Min. | Date | Total | Amt. | Date | ||||||||||||
| °F. | °F. | °F. | °F. | °F. | in. | in. | hrs. | hrs. | % | |||||||||||
| Jan | 44.7 | 35.5 | 40.1 | 57 | 27 | 25 | 23, 24 | 2.18 | 0.48 | 28 | 10 | 3 | - | 4 | 9 | 12 | - | 31.5 | 1.01 | 106 |
| Feb | 48.6 | 36.7 | 42.7 | 58 | 14 | 28 | 7,8 | 2.71 | 1.00 | 24 | 12 | 5 | — | 1 | 10 | 10 | - | 42.1 | 1.50 | 94 |
| Mar | 46.1 | 34.9 | 40.5 | 57 | 27, 28 | 24 | 9 | 1.10 | 0.18 | 27 | 9 | 3 | — | — | 12 | 18 | — | 99.0 | 3.19 | 107 |
| April | 54.1 | 39.5 | 46.8 | 73 | 30 | 30 | 2,3 | 1.71 | 0.67 | 5 | 8 | 1 | — | — | 2 | 7 | — | 138.5 | 4.62 | 105 |
| May | 62.9 | 47.3 | 55.1 | 76 | 2 | 40 | 4 | 2.23 | 0.76 | 29 | 12 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 181.9 | 5.87 | 97 |
| June | 67.2 | 51.7 | 59.5 | 78 | 16 | 45 | 13 | 6.35 | 2.01 | 9 | 16 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 127.8 | 4.26 | 63 |
| July | 71.3 | 55.8 | 63.5 | 82 | 8 | 46 | 23 | 2.40 | 0.64 | 16 | 14 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 169.1 | 5.45 | 88 |
| Aug. | 69.9 | 56.3 | 63.1 | 82 | 10 | 50 | 3 | 3.98 | 0.98 | 24 | 19 | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | 103.4 | 3.34 | 59 |
| Sept. | 69.1 | 54.2 | 61.7 | 82 | 5 | 42 | 27 | 8.90 | 1.04 | 23 | 11 | — | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | 130.7 | 4.36 | 104 |
| Oct | 59.5 | 48.1 | 53.8 | 64 | 1, 10, 14 | 40 | 6 | 2.66 | 0.58 | 12 | 13 | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | 93.8 | 3.03 | 113 |
| Nov. | 49.5 | 40.9 | 45.2 | 57 | 3, 6 | 33 | 14 | 1.56 | 0.66 | 2 | 9 | — | — | 3 | — | 11 | — | 31.2 | 1.04 | 76 |
| Dec____ | 47.3 | 38.8 | 43.1 | 56 | 27 | 34 | 2 to 7 | 3.11 | 0.51 | 29 | 15 | 5 | 13 | — | 18.4 | 0.59 | 69 | |||
| *Average for years 1921-1950. | ||||||||||||||||||||