GEOGRAPHY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA 



195 



the six warmest months (May to October), and the excess of late 

 summer (August to October) rainfall over that for early summer 

 (April to June), in inches.* 



TABLE 19. 



Selec(*d Climatological Data for Weather Stations in Central Florida, Grouped 



by Regions. 



Temperature 



Jan. 



July 



Year 



Growing 



Season 

 (days) 



Rainfall 



An- 

 nual 



Per cent in 



4 mos. 



6 mos. 



Excess 

 in late 

 sum'er 



West Coast 



Cedar Keys 



Tarpon Springs 



Lime-Sink Region 



Rockwell 



Inverness 



Tampa 



Mid. Fla. Hammock 

 Belt 



Ocala 



Hernando Ham- 

 mock Belt 



Brooksville 



St. Leo 



Lake Region 



Orange City 



Eustis 



Clermont 



Western Flatwoods 



Tampa 



Plant City 



Bartow 



Fort Meade 



Eastern Flatwoods 

 Kissimmee 



East Coast 



New Smyrna 



Titusville 



Merritt's Island 



58.0 

 58.3 



58.2 

 58.4 

 59.9 



57.4 

 60.0 

 60.1 

 59.2 



80.8 

 81.5 



82.3 



82.2 

 82.8 



80.0 

 81.0 

 81.9 

 80.6 



I 



60.3 I 82.0 



57.9 

 59.7 

 62.0 



79.8 

 80.8 

 81.4 



70.8 

 71.5 



71.1 

 71.4 

 72.6 



70.4 

 71.4 

 72.4 

 71.2 



72.0 



69.7 

 70.9 



72.7 



335 



294 



311 



335 



315 



311 



6.9 



7.8 



5.4 

 3.1 

 6.4 



4.3 



4.9 

 3.7 



6.4 

 6.2 

 5.7 



6.4 

 6.8 

 5.8 

 6.0 



6.3 



9.1 



4.5 

 5.7 



Throughout the area under consideration the average tempera- 

 ture for any or all months varies only a few degrees from one place 

 to another, probably not as much as it does for the same place in 

 different years. The growing season varies more, though, from 



*For a discussion of the significance of this seasonal precipitation factor 

 see Science H. 48:208-211. Aug. 30, 1918. Its relation to the distribution of 

 oil wells in the United States has been pointed out in the chapter on economic 

 geology (page 160). 



