[Report 1908] / School Medical Officer of Health, Lowestoft Borough.

  • Lowestoft (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1908
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Credit: [Report 1908] / School Medical Officer of Health, Lowestoft Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Barometer, Lowestoft. 1908. (Corrected for temperature and reduced to sea-level). Month. Mean pressure of the air in the month. Highest in month. Date. Lowest in month. Date Mean Pressure for latitude. Difference from this mean in 1908. Jan. Inches. 3OI38 Inches. 30-64 21 Inches. 28-85 8 Inches. 29-936 Inches. 4- 0*202 Feb. 30-I28 30-68 6 1 29-I0 28 29-940 + o-i88 Mar. 29'834 30-23 14 2917 10 29-880 —0*046 1 April 29933 3037 7 29-29 24 29*950 —0-017 May 30-000 3053 27 29*40 6 29-981 +0-019 June 3°'o84 304O 27 29-65 l3 29-979 +0-105 July 30-007 30-43 29 29-40 17 29-958 +0-049 Aug. 29-963 30-39 2 29-41 28 29-945 +0018 Sept. 29-967 30-28 30 29-23 1 29935 +0-032 Oct. 30-l66 3053 22 29-92 10 29-893 + 0-273 Nov. 30051 30-45 30 29-38 22 29-890 + 0161 Dec. 29-943 30-48 3i 28*70 10 29-945 —0*002 Mean 30-0X8 Highest1 of all. 30-68 Feb. 1 Lowest of all. 28-70 Dec. 29-937 + o-o8i The barometer is thus seen to have been above the local average on nine months of the year, the mean difference in the year being more than 8-iooths of an inch.