Cold winters at kew observatory, 1783–1942

✍ Scribed by A. J. Drummond

• Book ID: 104570311
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1943
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 839 KB
• Volume: 69
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0035-9009
• DOI: 10.1002/qj.49706929804

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Continuous meteorological observations have been kept in the Richmond district of London for the last hundred and sixty years. During the early half of the period the observations were made first at Syon House, Isleworth, and then at Chiswick, those in the latter half being made at Kew Observatory. The only gap in the records of temperature was one of four years between the first and second series, a period for which other London data are fortunately available. The monthly means, derived from the Syon House and Chiswick registers, were corrected to bring them into line with the corresponding monthly values obtained from the hourly measurements of the traces from the photographic thermograph in the North Wall screen at Kew Observatory. A series of mean monthly winter temperatures, as homogeneous as can reasonably be expected over such a long period, has therefore been constructed. The last three of these wintres, 1939‐40, 1940‐41 and 1941‐42 have been dealt with in considerable detail.