[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Teignmouth U.D.C.

Teignmouth (England). U.D. Council.

Date:: 1925

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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Teignmouth U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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With the advent of April showery weather set in and continued until the end of May. Temperature was moderate during this period and sunshine about normal. Jane opened dry and sunny, bnt rather cool. From the 4th, however, the temperature rose rapidly and a maximum of 82.5 degrees was recorded on the 12th. During the latter half of the month temperature was more moderate although skies were still almost cloudless. The total rain for the month—003 inch — was measured on the 23rd during a slight thunderstorm. This is the lowest rainfall ever recorded at this station for any one month. The Sunshine—358-6 hours—(a daily average of 1T95 hours) was a record for June and is only exceeded by July 1911 with 366 1 hours, (a daily average of 1T81 hours). July saw a continuation of the warm and sunny weather of June, but the latter half of the month was rather unsettled with one or two heavy falls of rain. August was not so sunny as the two previous months but weather was mainly fair. Conditions were often thundery, how¬ ever, and Teignmouth was fortunata in escaping the worst of the heavy rain storms which visited the South-West districts. The rainfall—1*53 inches—was only about half the average for this station, but in other districts, more especially in North Devon, totals of from four to six inches were common. Fine and sunny tut mainly cool weather persisted throughout September with the exception of a very stormy spell from the 18th to the 22nd. In this period 3do inches of rain fell, 1 78 inches being measured on the 19th. After the 25th September, warr? and sunny weather continued until the middle of October, only 0 03 inch of rain falling in this period ; on 4th October, the thermometer reached 70 degrees, a very high figure for the time of year. Very wet and stormy conditions then set in and continued until the second week of November. At this date a marked drop in temperature occurred and a spell of extremely cold and dry weather was main¬ tained until 6th December. The first five days of December, too, were very sunny, 30 5 hours being recorded ; this amount is more than half the normal total for the month. After a short interval of mild and wet weather, dry and cold conditions were renewed only to be broken on the 18th by wet and stormy weather which con¬ tinued throughout the remainder of the month, the year celebrating its departure in the same manner as its arrival by producing wide-spread floods. Geo. ROSSITE.R, Met EOROLOGICAL OBSERVER.