CLIMATOLOGY. 



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ORDER OF SEQUENCE 



OF THE DIFFERENT WINDS IN RESPECT OF 



FREQUENCY, 



TEMPERATURE, 



HUMIDITY, 



beginning with the 



beginning %\'ith the 



beginning with the 



least frequent. 



coldest. 



driest. 



East. 



North-west. 



North. 



South-east. 



North. 



North-west. 



North. 



North-east. 



East. 



North-east. 



South-east. 



South-west. 



South. 



South. 



West. 



North-west. 



East. 



North-east. 



West. 



West. 



South. 



South-west. 



South-west. 



South-east. 



The principal anomaly or local peculiarity here is the position 

 in the lists as regards temperature of the North-west wind and 

 as regards humidity of the South-west and North-east ; and these 

 we must explain by remembering the position of the low country 

 with regard to the hill-masses. The North-west wind is normally 

 warmer than the North-east, but with us it blows from a cold 

 mountainous region and often brings severe weather. The 

 average temperature of the East wind is raised so high by the 

 height which it reaches in Summer, but in Winter it is one of the 

 coldest of the winds. The North-east is usually known as a keen 

 dry wind, but with us it is thrown up by beating against the 

 eastern range of hills, and thus losing heat and density, often 

 discharges its moisture in the shape of sleet ; and the normally 

 damp South-west on the contrary has much of its moisture 

 absorbed by the Pennine chain before it reaches us. 



The following table gives a list for an upland, a lowland and a 

 maritime station, on an average in some cases of four and other 

 cases of five recent years, of the number of winds during each 

 quarter as arranged under the four principal heads, and of their 

 average force at the different stations during the same ])criod, 

 this last an important datum in connection with climatic 

 influences. 



liot. Trans. V.N.U., Vol. 3. 



