Health resorts and their uses : being vacation studies in various health resorts / by J.[sic] Burney Yeo.

Date:
1882
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Credit: Health resorts and their uses : being vacation studies in various health resorts / by J.[sic] Burney Yeo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    following figures are obtained. Mean temperature for the following months : Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. March. April. May. EaSt Bay 65-3 55-3 50-55 49-9 50-6 53-9 587 6576 West Bay 62-2 55-6 50-69 49-12 49-46 51*1 57-64 63-1 It will be noticed that during the months in which there is least wind, December and January, there is scarcely any difference in the temperature of the two bays, but in the windy spring months the greater protection enjoyed by the east bay is shown by its higher temperature. The lowest temperature recorded during ten consecutive winters was 25-5 in March, 1877, and the highest 77 degrees in November, 1874. The mean daily range of temperature was found to be least in December, 9-2 degrees, and greatest in April, 12-5 degrees. The average rainfall from October to May inclusive is 25-61 inches, but if we omit October and May, for the remaining six months it is only I7’87 inches. The corresponding number of rainy days is 63-8 if we include October and May, 45*15 excluding them. January and February are the finest months, and have the smallest rainfall and the fewest rainy days. October is the wettest month. The average number of very fine days for the six winter months, from November to April inclusive, seems to be about 94-5, rather more than fifteen in each month* Considered generally, the climate of Mentone may be taken as a favourable example of the Riviera climate, and it has the great advantage of possessing, as it were, two climates, suited to different classes of * The discrepancies which are observed in the figures pub- lished as “means” and “averages” in the meteorological tables of different observers are, to some extent, inevitable, and depend on the circumstance that the observations recorded extend over varying periods and different seasons. Observations which extend over only five or six years will be influenced by the occur- rence of one very fine or one very bad season, and will perhaps vary somewhat from the records of another observer extending over twenty or twenty-five years.