[Report 1969] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow.

  • Glasgow (Scotland)
Date:
1969
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    month of the year with only 28 hours sunshine compared with 36 hours in 1968. Only 2-6 hours sunshine was recorded in the period 10th to 18th inclusive. March too was dull with 72 hours sunshine, eighteen less than in 1968, and the dullest March since 1964 (64 hours). February however, had 75 hours sunshine, ten hours more than in 1968 and above the average for this month. April and July had identical amounts of sunshine, 161 hours, compared with 155 hours and 121 hours re- spectively in 1968. May jvas dull, with 110 hours, well below the average for this month and 18 hours less than in 1968. The sunniest month was June with 209 hours as against 199 in 1968. This total is well above the average and the highest since 1960 (225 hours). August with 186 hours (163 in 1968) was the sunniest since 1947. Sunshine in October totalled 72 hours, the average for this month which in 1968, had been dull, with only 60 hours. November’s total, 53 hours, was above the average for the month, and above the 1968 total of 49 hours. December, in spite of fog on one or two occasions, had 37 hours sunshine, above the average for this month and 8 hours more than in 1968. Fog occurred one or two days in January, once in March, three in October, once in November and four in December. Up to and including November, 1965 the daily readings from which these weather notes were compiled were based on observations made at Springburn Park and published daily in The Glasgow Herald. Since 1st December, 1965, the daily readings have been those recorded at the Meterological Station at Renfrew Airport, a site more representative of the area than Springburn Park which is higher than many of the surrounding districts. This difference is most obvious in the case of temperature, a variation of several degrees being frequently observed in the readings taken at Renfrew and those recorded at the City Weather Centre. This year’s notes, however, have again been compiled from the monthly weather reports of the Metereological Office which provides information additional to that shown in Appendix Table III on page 320. The readings referred to continue to be those taken at Springburn.