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Croydon 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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TABLE XI.
METEOROLOGICAL RECORD—YEAR 1926.
Rain Gauge 5-in. in diameter, 1-ft. above ground, 146 ft. above sea level Temperature taken in the shade of a Stevenson's Screen, 4-ft. from the ground. The Ground Thermometer is suspended in an iron tube, the
bulb being 4-ft.
| Months. 1926. | Temperature of Air during Month | Mean Temperature of Air. | Difference from average 50 years at Greenwich. | Mean Temperature of Ground at 4-ft. | Mean Temperature of the Dew Point. | Mean Tensional Difference between Ground and Dew Point at 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. | Rainfall. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highest. | Lowest. | Mean of | No. of Days on which Rain fell. | Amount collected in Inches. | Difference from average 90 years at Greenwich | |||||||
| All Highest. | All Lowest. | |||||||||||
| January | 52° | 15° | 44°.9 | 35°.6 | 40°.2 | + 1°.7 | 42°.5 | 37°.7 | in — .038 | 19 | in. 2.96 | in. + 1.17 |
| February | 58° | 28° | 50°.3 | 41°.2 | 45°.7 | + 6°.2 | 43°.3 | 42°.3 | — .008 | 19 | 2.35 | + 0.82 |
| March | 60° | 29° | 51°.1 | 38°.7 | 44°.9 | + 3°.2 | 45°.0 | 41°.6 | — .058 | 3 | 0.21 | — 1.30 |
| April | 72° | 37° | 56°.5 | 42°.3 | 49°.4 | + 2°.2 | 46°.7 | 45°.1 | — .014 | 17 | 4.36 | + 2.70 |
| May | 76° | 35° | 59°.1 | 45°.3 | 52°.2 | — 0°.9 | 48°.5 | 46°.4 | — .044 | 13 | 1.06 | — 0.82 |
| June | 76° | 42° | 66°.1 | 49°.7 | 57°.9 | — 1°.5 | 53°.6 | 51°.7 | - .026 | 16 | 3.30 | + 1.27 |
| July | 87° | 49° | 72°.2 | 55°.7 | 63°.9 | + 1°.4 | 57°.6 | 57°.1 | — ..002 | 16 | 2.05 | - 0.36 |
| August | 80° | 46° | 71°.6 | 54°.6 | 63°.1 | + 1°.5 | 58°.4 | 56°.3 | — .031 | 10 | 1.52 | — 0.86 |
| September | 84° | 39° | 67°.7 | 53°.0 | 60°.3 | + 3°.1 | 58°.6 | 55°.1 | — .048 | 11 | 1.20 | — 1.0 |
| October | 70° | 27° | 53°.9 | 41°.8 | 47°.8 | — 2°.2 | 52°.8 | 43°.5 | — .108 | 13 | 2.96 | + 0.23 |
| November | 55° | 27° | 49°.2 | 39°.6 | 44°.4 | + 1°.2 | 47°.8 | 41°.9 | — .061 | 24 | 5.02 | + 2.73 |
| December | 50° | 29° | 44°.4 | 35°.0 | 39°.7 | — | 44°.4 | 35°.9 | — .078 | 9 | 0.34 | — 1.69 |
| Meant and Totals for Year. | 87° | 15° | 57°.2 | 44°.3 | 50°.7 | + 1°.3 | 49°.9 | 46°.2 | — .043 | 170 | 27.33 | + 3.04 |
The Rainfall at Croydon was 1.83 inches above, and number of days on which rain fell was 13 above the
average of 50 years at Croydon. H. W. CORDEN,
Croydon.
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