This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...Fayette county. Latitude, 40 02'; longitude, 79 32'; elevation, 891 feet. Mean Temperatures at Somerset, Somerset county. Latitude, 40 02'; longitude, 79 03'; elevation, 2.128 feet. This period at Somerset is not uniform, and it is apparent that the local conditions were not the same throughout. The mean, which is of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...Fayette county. Latitude, 40 02'; longitude, 79 32'; elevation, 891 feet. Mean Temperatures at Somerset, Somerset county. Latitude, 40 02'; longitude, 79 03'; elevation, 2.128 feet. This period at Somerset is not uniform, and it is apparent that the local conditions were not the same throughout. The mean, which is of 22 years for the winter months and 20 years for the summer months, is evidently a fair definition of that climate, a position elevated over 2,100 feet and properly 5 degrees below the temperature at sea level in the same latitude. Comparing Somerset with Philadelphia, there Omitted years 1842, 1843,1850, 1851, I860 and 2. is nearly 5 degrees difference in the mean for each month and for t year. See Isothermal Map in pocket of cover. RECORDS OP RAINFALL, IN PENNSYLVANIA, COMPILED BY LOR t BbODGET. Philadelphia: Dr. J. Redman Coxe, June, 1798-January, 1800, three and on half years. Reuben Haines, Germantown, July, 1819-December, 1827, eig and one-half years. Franklin Institute. 1831-March 1837, six and one-half years. Maj. Mordecai, Frankford Arsenal, 1836-1843, eight years. Pennsylvania Hospital, 1825-1888, sixty-four years. Fort Mifflin, Delaware county, 1843-4, 1849-1853, seven years. Prof. James A. Kirkpatrick, July 1851-December, 1881, thir and one-half years. Thomas Meehan, Germantown, 1870-71, 1884-87, six years. Philadelphia Water Department, Thirteenth and Spring Garde October, 1883-86, three and one-quarter years. Byberry, Philadelphia county: J. Comly; J. C. Martindale, 1851,1861-63, four years. Morrisville, Bucks county: Charles Pierce, 1793-1824, autumn months only, thirty-five year Charles Pierce and Ebenezer Hance, 1825, April, 1860 (omittii 1847,1848, 1849 and 1853), thirty-one and one-third years. Fallsington: Ebenezer Han...
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