Annual report on the health of Gibraltar.

  • Gibraltar. Public Health Department.
Date:
[1948]
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Credit: Annual report on the health of Gibraltar. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR THE YEAR 1948. The following weather summary and tables have been sup¬ plied by the Air Ministry’s Meteorologist at Gibraltar. January was milder than normal. A stormy spell towards the end of this month yielded heavy rainfall above the average. February and March were both warmer and drier than usual. No rain fell in the first seventeen days of February. April and May gave unsettled weather with rainfall rather above the average. June, July, August and September were mainly fine months with abundant sunshine in the latter two months. The drought was broken at the end of October with about normal rainfall for the month. November was abnormally dry with a prolonged spell of levanter. December begun with fair weather but an unsettled spell about Christmas produced about the normal rainfall. The total rainfall for the year was 25.31 inches which is 72% of the average. The deficit was due to the fair dry weather in February and March, a fine September and an exceptionallv dry November when only .07 inches were recorded. It is to be noted that statistics refer to the R.A.F. Airfield at North Front, Gibraltar.