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

  • Black, William George, 1857-1932.
Date:
[1889]
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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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    These irruptions brought on gales with showery weather and cold winds, which cooled the air and afterwards the sea, and which was also made uncomfortable by waves or surf on the beaches. Besides, bathing in the sea now became dangerous, in consequence of the development of the backwash of the surf creating an undercurrent below sea level on the beach, which causes numerous deaths by drowning every year to inexperienced sea bathers. The promenades and piers now get swept by disagree- able, damp winds, and by spray from the surf, and are soon abandoned on or about the equinoctial 'period of September 26th, when the bathing closes on both coasts, the cars and stages are withdrawn, and the beaches look deserted by their visitors. The inducements of climate that take people from grimy cities to the coast resorts, are illus- trated by these instrumental observations, as consisting in more ozone, more breezes, more showers, more sun and air, and less heat, less calms,dess smoke, less miasmata. The prevalent exodus seems fully justified by observation of all considerations, and the English coasts of the British channel seem well adapted for health resorts for the citizen ; and it will be to the interest of the town dweller that they should be improved, and extended in appliances and in accommodation for these great migrations. Meteorology at the seaside. English Channel, 1. Summer Observations. Having visited a few places on the coasts of the Channel during some autumns past, and observed the weather pheno- mena by ordinary instruments adapted for the traveller’s use, the observations of three months are here summarised in the accompanying tables and curves. Of the months, August, 1886, was spent at Brighton; September 1885 at Hastings ; and October 1887 at Havre and Boulogne, so that a fair idea was got of channel weather during the seasons frequented by tourists.