Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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TABLE 1—continued.
1937 | Cloud. | Rain and other forms of Precipitation. | Weather Number of days of | Wind. Number of Observations at 9 a.m., 3 | p.m. | and 9 p.m. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Mean of Observations of amount at 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. (Scale 0-10). | Total Fall. | Percentage from Average. † | Most in a Day. | Precipitation (0.2 mm. and above). | Precipitation (1 mm. and above). | Snow. | Hall. | Thunder heard | Persistently Clear. | Generally Clear. ‡ | Generally Overcast.‡ | Persistently Overcast. | Fog at 9 a.m. | Gale. | Force. | Direction. | |||||||||||
Amount. | Day of Month. | Gale | Moderate and Strong Wind | Calm. | N. | N.E. | E. | S.E. | S. | S.W. | W. | N.W. | |||||||||||||||
January | 7.5 | 86 | 201 | mm. 13 | 1 | 25 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 25 | 24 | 14 | 3 |
February | 6.9 | 100 | 251 | 18 | 7 | 22 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 30 | 22 | 9 |
March | 6.4 | 74 | 168 | 17 | 6 | 18 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 3 | 14 | 19 | 11 | 5 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 7 |
April | 7.7 | 62 | 167 | 12 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 83 | 7 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 11 | 10 |
May | 6.9 | 87 | 197 | 18 | 20 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 19 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 3 |
June | 6.6 | 48 | 93 | 20 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 6 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 11 | 15 |
July | 7.5 | 18 | 32 | 9 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 28 | 22 | 12 |
August | 5.4 | 43 | 77 | 26 | 30 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 12 | 17 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 8 | 11 |
September | 5.2 | 32 | 72 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 28 | 9 | 10 |
October | 6.7 | 59 | 92 | 15 | 23 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 7 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 17 | 9 | 9 | 3 |
November | 5.7 | 35 | 59 | 12 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 82 | 8 | 13 | 9 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 14 | 8 | 4 |
December | 8.4 | 87 | 152 | 17 | 2 | 19 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 12 | 17 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 4 |
Year | 6.7 | 731 | 122 | 26 | Aug. 30 | 176 | 123 | 23 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 14 | 161 | 19 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 1027 | 68 | 149 | 106 | 105 | 63 | 145 | 224 | 144 | 91 |
‡ A day is reckoned as "generally clear" if the average of the estimates of the fraction of sky covered by cloud at 9 a.m., 3 p.m., and 9 p.m. is less than .2, and as "generally overcast" if the average is greater than .8. Days persistently cloudless and days persistently overcast refer to the period midnight to midnight. |