Summer meteorology, sea-side : with diagrams / by W.G. Black.

  • Black, William George, 1857-1932.
Date:
[1889]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Summer meteorology, sea-side : with diagrams / by W.G. Black. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    In the same way the cargoes of ships wrecked on our stormy coasts will be drawn or sucked out of the holds by the back-wash, and carried of with the deep water, and there sunk if heavy, or be floated off to some more distant part if of lighter material. In cases of drowning accidents the aim of the human rescuer should therefore be to get the person to be floated on the surface of the water, so as to get out of the under- wash, and into the uppsrcurrent that is rolling on towards the surf on the beach. 8. Difference between City and Sea-side Climate. The question may now be endeavoured to be answered, what is the instrumental difference between the two climates that makes the citizen fly from his dwelling and office at the end of the season, and take refuge at the seaside. Preliminarily it may be stated that the weather con- cerned in human climatology should only be considered as connected with a zone of atmosphere of some 50 to 60 feet high, or the mean height of our dwellings and hotels. Everything of weather observation or opinion beyond and above that, may be relegated to pure or transcendental meteorology, which is more or entirely removed from the influence of the solid ground we live and move about on. Previous to going to Hastings, eleven days were spent in London in 1885, from September 1st to 11th, when obser- vations were taken in the town, as follows.—barometer 29‘46 inches to 30T2 inches; thermometer inside 63° to 67°, outside from 50° to 64° ; evaporation total 0-72 inches or about 0‘06 inches per diem ; rainy days seven; ozone total 2'0 or only 0'2 per diem ; and winds ranged from S.W. 6 to S.E. 2 round by N. The seaside climate, after this at Hastings, showed four times as much ozone, twice as much evaporation, three times fewer wet days; ther- mometer about the same, but barometer much higher. In comparing sets of climatological observations in the