mean temperature *740 in. the Shade—#60 in the Sun, Mean height of the Barometer 29.726. Mean fall of rain 8.647 inz average number of rainy days Whereas the Calendar was prepared to describe May as "decidedly warm", it was satisfied to affirm that June was "not yet oppressive".
The legend for June 1854 might well apply to June 1937, but for the curious circumstance that the month now ending has been singularly below the normal in wetness. The calendars note of an average rain-"nearly 8 in." contrasts strongly with the total of 3.86 in. recorded this June (up to and including. June 27), In fact, the dryness of June has. brought the mean rainfall for the half-year to 2040 in. as against the normal average of 21:30 in, whereas, on May 31, the record for the first five months' of the year showed 16.54 in, as against a normal of 14.85 in. It should be added that the 1854 calendar's normal of nearly 8 in. is in excess of Siccawel's 6.54 in. for June.(to 27th). It is indeed surprising that June thas been 0 cool in 1937 seeing that it haz been according to the figures—so greiitly in defect with its rainfall, For the "wettest month" a total of 3.86, in. is pathetically feeble. There time, of course, for the month to finish in style to-day. It will: have been noticed that the parents who are urging the schools to defer reopening for the Christmas term until mid-September proceed on the assumption that the fierceness of the hot weather leans toward early September rather than late June. 'The theory is well-supported by the quotations now given. July, in the 1854 Calendar, albeit' with "twelve rainy days, 1s' declared to be: "not inaptly described as hot, dry.'and scorching", although' "considerable rain;. ".generally in the evening in the form of heavy thunder showers:+..sometimes very severe" falls, August begins with "the hottest weather", mitigated by. high win September has marked changes in temperature but it is.to be noted that the-mean temperature' in. the Shade for that month, Is, 2:4 deg. higher than for June—a significant proof of the asperity of September's early days when it is realized that the Autumnal Equinox ° falls' on September 24.
'SH It. must frankly admitted that, just as in the Uitle matter of ages a woman is 05, old.as she feels, if older than the figure on her passport, so the sala mander refuses 0 be a slave to the thermometer. If he feels that the oather is-og Mr. Mantalint put it idem'a moist and unpleasant", no amount of juggling with dry or wet bulb will shake his conviction, may even prefer to proceed by hypnotizing himself with the Chinese Calendar. He will then refuse {to look to any period except that beginning on July 24 and ending on 'August 24—the Great Heat, (Ta 'Shu) and the End of Heat (Chu 'Shu) respectively. As for the Lesser Heat (Hsiao Shu) on July 8, the' Beginning of Autumn (It [Chin) on August' 8 or the White Dew. (Pai Lu) on September 8 he decides to judge them strictly on their merits, If they deliver the goods, they have his. approval,. If they do not, they must be relegated with rain gauges, barometers "and thermometers and other pretentious instruments to the limbo of ineffactiveness.
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