Summer meteorology, sea-side : with diagrams / by W.G. Black.

  • Black, William George, 1857-1932.
Date:
[1889]
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Credit: Summer meteorology, sea-side : with diagrams / by W.G. Black. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Exerpt from Vol. X. of the Transactions of the Sanitary Institute. On ‘Meteorology at the Seaside,’ by Surgeon Major W. G. Black, F.R.M.S., F.R.C.S.E. Read at the Congress of the Institute held at Worcester, and illustrated by Diagrams. September 27, 1889. This communication consisted of a sketch of the conditions of the iveather which prevailed during the summer month of August, and autumn ones of September and October at places of resort on the English Channel. The remarks are founded on a series of observations by portable meteorological instruments carried in a hand bag, which wTere set up and used where practicable at the time and place at the coast. They showed how easy such opportunities could be utilised at any place the tourist went to stay at. The best kind of weather for the visitor was of the continental type, or anti-cyclonic, with bright skies and sunny days, and when the air and sea kept up their temperature, and ozone was abundant and southerly breezes prevailed, and the seas were calm and brilliant. The sea-bather then indulged himself with water over 60° of temperature, and the air felt warm and dry afterwards to dress by; and the multitudes on the beaches enjoyed it. Towards the end of the season the weather becomes broken into by irritating cyclonettes creeping up, or cyclones dash- ing through the channel, which create an uncomfortable surf, and cause a rough wind to swirl on the beaches and promenades.