PART II: METEOROLOGY 



9 . This section summarizes the meteorological measurements made during 

 the current year and in combination with all previous years. Meteorological 

 measurements during storms are given in Part IX. 



10. Mean air temperature, atmospheric pressure, and wind speed and 

 direction were computed for each data file which consisted of data sampled two 

 times per second for 34 min every 6 hr beginning at or about 0100, 0700, 1300, 

 and 1900 eastern standard time (EST) ; these hours correspond to the time that 

 the National Weather Service (NWS) creates daily synoptic weather maps. Dur- 

 ing storms, data recordings were made more frequently. The data are summar- 

 ized in Table 2. 



Table 2 

 Meteorological Statistics 





























Mean 



Air Tenperature 



deg C 



Mean 

 Atjrospheric Pres. 

 mb 



Precipitation, n 







Wind Resultants 









1988 



1980 



-1988 





1988 



Total 



124 





1978-1988 



Speed 



m/sec 



2.6 



Direction 

 deg 



Speed ] 

 m/sec 

 2.6 



Direction 



Month 



1988 

 3.9 



1983-1988 

 5.0 



1988 1983-1988 

 1024.2 1017.8 



Mean 

 100 



Maxiina Minima 

 180 44 



deg 



Jan 



349 



339 



Feb 



6.1 



6.0 



1018.8 1017.3 



86 



72 



86 



20 



1.2 



313 



1.8 



350 



Mar 



9.9 



9.1 



1019.1 1016.2 



37 



79 



168 



35 



0.2 



27 



1.4 



358 



Apr 



13.6 



13.5 



1010.8 1013.2 



100 



95 



182 







1.4 



354 



0.4 



319 



May 



17.9 



18.8 



1014.8 1016.2 



49 



64 



239 



20 



1.5 



64 



0.4 



173 



Jun 



22.2 



23.2 



1014.7 1015.5 



118 



80 



130 



27 



0.5 



246 



1.0 



199 



Jul 



25.8 



26.0 



1017.8 1016.5 



60 



81 



200 



19 



3.0 



208 



1.7 



215 



Aug 



25.4 



26.0 



1015.2 1016.5 



121 



105 



221 



30 



2.0 



176 



0.5 



98 



Sep 



21.3 



22.2 



1016.9 1018.0 



35 



72 



160 



5 



3.0 



25 



1.9 



36 



Oct 



15.1 



17.4 



1017.1 1019.8 



69 



64 



143 



17 



2.3 



352 



2.5 



27 



Nov 



13.9 



13.3 



1016.1 1018.6 



120 



93 



145 



26 



0.6 



331 



1.9 



357 



Dec 



6.4 



8.2 



1020.0 1019.8 



16 



62 



131 



4 



2.2 



301 



2.1 



335 



Average 



15.1 



15.7 



1017.2 1017.2 



78 



80 







0.7 



335 



0.9 



357 



Total 









935 



967 















Air Temperature 



11. The FRF enjoys a typical marine climate which moderates the temper- 

 ature extremes of both summer and winter. 



