On the Rainfall and Temperature at Victoria Peak, Hong Kong

Abstract

THE first column of the following table shows the month of the year; the second, the mean rainfall at the Observatory (about 100 feet above the sea) from ten years' records; the third, the mean of the past four years' fall; the fourth, same for Victoria Peak (about 1800 feet above the sea); the fifth, the proportion between the figures in the two preceding columns; the sixth, the height of ascent in feet for one Fahrenheit degree of decrease of temperature (mean of the past four years):—