420 



TABLES 557-558. 

 RELATIVE INTENSITY OF SOLAR RADIATION, 



TABLE 557. Mean Intensity ./ lor 24 hours of solar radiation on a horizontal surface at the top of the 



atmosphere and the solar radiation A , In terms of the solar radiation, t , 



at earth's mean distance from the son. 



TABLE 558, Mean Monthly and Yearly Temperatures. 



Mean temperatures of a few selected American stations, also of a station of very high, two of very low temperature, 

 and one of very great and one of very small range of temperature. 



Lat., Long., Alt. respectively: (i) +58.5,63.o W, ; (2) +49.9, 97-r W, 2 3 3m.; (3) +45.5, 73-6 W, 57 m. ; 

 (4) -[-42.3,71.1 W )3 8m.; (5) + 41 9, 87.6 W, 2 5 im.; (6) +39.7, 105.0 W, i6i 3 m.; (7) +38.9, 77-o W, 34 m.; (8) 

 + 38.8, 105.0 W, 43 o8m. ; (9) + 38.6, 00.2 W, 1731".; (10) +37.8, 122.5 W, 4 7 m.; (n)+32. 7 , 114.6 W, 4 3 m. ; 

 (12) +30.0, 90.1 W, i6m.; (13) + 15.6, 37.5 E, 901.5 (14) +81.7, 64.7 W.,; (15) +67.6, 133.8 E, i4om. ; (16) 6.2, 

 106.8 E, 7m. 



Taken from Hann's Lehrbuch der Meteorologie, 2 ! nd edition, which see for further data. 

 Note: Highest recorded temperature in world = 57 C in Death Valley, California, July 10, 1913. 



Lowest recorded temperature in world = -68 C at Verkhoyansk, Feb. 1892. 

 SMITHSONIAN TABLES. 



