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sun is not visible as often as earlier in the year, 'but when it does shine its 

 heat, combined with the moisture in the air, renders the climate very 

 hot. Conditions as to personal comfort are much the same as during 

 the preceding season except that the discomforts are of a less degree. The 

 heat moderates in October, both vapor tension and relative humidity 

 are less, and the rainfall decreases greatly. The changes continue, until 

 by the first of December the conditions as described for January are again 

 approximated. 



The following table is a summary of the climatic conditions in Manila. 

 These figures are prepared from the reports of Eev. Jose Algue, S. J., 

 Director of the Philippine Weather Bureau, and in most instances are 

 the averages for a number of years. The temperatures have been reduced 

 to the Farenheit standard and the metric measurements to inches. 



1 



Month. 



Temperature. 



Humidity. 



Precip- 

 itation 

 (aver- 

 age 

 month- 

 ly)- 



Wind. 



Hours 

 of sun- 

 shine 

 (daily 

 aver- 

 age). 



Mean. 



Mean 

 maxi- 

 mum. 



Mean 

 mini- 

 mum. 



Mean 

 rela- 

 tive. 



Abso- 

 lute." 



Pre- 

 vail- 

 ing 

 direc- 

 tion. 



Veloc- 

 ity 

 per 

 hour 

 (aver- 

 age). 



January^ 



| February 



March 



°F. 



77 



77.7 



80.2 



83 



83.5 



82.2 



80.8 



80.8 



80.6 



80.4 



79 



77.3 



°F. 



85. G 



86.9 



89.8 



•94.3 



92 



89.8 



S6.3 



86.9 



86.9 



87.8 



86.3 



85.4 



°F. 



69.3 



69.1 



71.4 



73.8 



75.5 



75.4 



75 



74.9 



75 



74 



72.5 



70.7 



P.ct. 



77.6 



74.2 



71.8 



70.7 



76.7 



81. 



84.8 



84.8 



85.5 



82.7 



82 



80.7 



Sr. 



7.7 

 7.4 

 7.8 

 8.5 

 9.2 

 9.7 

 9.7 

 9.7 

 9.7 

 9.2 

 8.7 

 8.2 



Inches. 

 1.14 

 0.39 

 0.73 

 1.08 

 4 



•9.75 



15 



14.2 



14.7 

 7.55 

 5.37 

 2.27 



N. 

 K. 

 E. 

 E. 



sw. 



SW. 



SW. 



sw. 

 sw. 

 sw. 



N. 

 N. 



Miles. 

 4.S 

 5 



5.8 

 6.1 

 6.6 

 6.4 

 6.8 

 7.6 

 8.1 

 5.6 

 4.4 

 4.2 



h. m. 



6 13 



7 20 



7 57 



8 51 

 7 38 

 5 30 

 5 



4 37 



5 5 

 5 35 

 5 24 

 5 16 







July _ 



August ___ 



September 



October 



! November 



[ December 



Annual 



80.2 



88.2 



73 



79.4 



8.7 



76.31 



6 



6 12 



a The absolute humidity is expressed in grains of aqueous vapor per cubic foot of air. 



The average person when discussing the climate of these Islands takes 

 no middle ground: he either pronounces it ideal, thus ranging himself 

 with a select minority, or else conveys the impression that there are no 

 words in his vocabulary properly to express his disapproval of it. How- 

 ever, moderation in discussion is beginning to make its appearance and 

 somewhere between these two opinions lies the truth. To the writer, 

 the year appears to be divisible into two parts so far as personal comfort 

 is concerned. That half of 'the year beginning with the first of October 

 and ending with the last of March is a season when with little effort 

 one can be comfortable, and three months in the middle of this season 

 are almost faultless. On the other hand, the season from the first of 



