Air Ministry: Meteorological Office British Meteorological and Magnetic Year Book, 1916

Abstract

THESE results are now available for seven consecutive years, 1910–1916, and with the publication of each additional year the data are becoming of increased value for meteorological and physical inquiries. All the information refers to land stations, no data over the sea being as yet directly obtainable. Observations are given for 440 stations, and most of these are under the control of government meteorological services. The results show that the highest mean pressure for the year, at mean sea-level, is 30.19 in. at Barnaoul and Minou-sinsk in S3°-54° N. 83°-93° E., the lowest mean pressure 29-45 in. is at S. Georgia in 54° S. 37° W. The highest mean temperature was 85°-5 F. at Berbera, Somaliland, in 10° N. 45° E., the lowest 10°-6 F. at Markovo-sur-Anadyr in 65° N. 171° E. The largest rainfall for the year was 486 inches at Cherrapunji in 25° N. 92° E., which is 76-3 in. more than the average, followed by 269 inches at Akyab, 77-6 in. more than the average. No rain was measured during the year at Puerto de Arica or at Iquique, at both of which stations the average annual fall is i mm. The only rain expected at Puerto de Arica is 0-04 in. on the average in January, and at Iquique 0-04 in. in July. Notes are given for each month on the state of the ice in the Arctic Seas and in the North Atlantic.