HH62/1/DUNBAR/11

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A single year's data, referring to a single station, do not afford
a sufficient basis for generalisations as to the whole County, but,
in addition to the full meteorological records kept by Messrs.
Denny, I have, from the Journal of the Meteorological Society for
the year 1882, obtained the following statement of the mean
monthly and annual temperature at Cardross and Balloch Castle:-

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These observations are valuable as giving the facts for a long
series of years - 13 years at Cardross and 20 years at Balloch
Castle - and they show a mean annual temperature of 47·1 and
a mean monthly temperature ranging from 37·8 and 37·9 in
January to 58·1 and 58·3 in July.
Regarding rainfall, observations have been made for a number of
years at five stations within the county, and have been published
in Symon's annual volumes. The following table gives the facts
for the seven years ending 1890, with, for comparison, the mean
of all the observations made in Scotland during the same period:-

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TABLE II. - RAINFALL.

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