Torquay: the Baths, and Berry Head etc. ([1853?])

Illustrations of Devon. Exeter: Henry Besley, 1848. The position, and local protection from cold winds, must naturally greatly influence the climate of Torquay. Dr. Shapter remarks, " Many observations on its temperature, &. have certainly been registered; more especially by Mr. Blewitt, Drs. Coldstream and Barry, but at such irregular times and for so short a period at each time, that it is quite
out of the question deducing from them anything like satisfactory averages." Since this was written, E. Vivian, Esq., has published a series of observations taken by him during the last five years, at Woodfield, together with the temperature at Park-place, and on the Strand; from which it appears, that its mean annual temperature is rather more than 52·2°, and the mean winter temperature above 44·1°, at Woodfield, and about 46° in the most sheltered parts of the town, being 5° warmer than Exeter during the months of December, January, and February. In the summer the cool sea breeze gives a similar advantage. On comparing it with all the places quoted by Sir James Clark, it appears to be the coolest of them all, with the single exception of Sidmouth, where the observations were taken during only two summers, and not by a self-registering thermometer. "The mean difference between the temperature of successive days, in the cold season, may be stated at 2°7; its daily range appears also to be small. The general mildness of this place may be somewhat appreciated by the statement of the lowest degree of cold experienced in the generally severe winter of 1837-8, being only 21°, while in Exeter it was 17°, Bristol 8°, Kensington 0, and at Sandhurst, 8° below Zero." Its summer temperature during the last five years has never exceeded 80° at the highest extreme.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]

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