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Table 26—Mean Barometer at Different Latitudes
Lat January[1] July[1] Year[2]
mm in mm in mm in
75° 758.3 29.86 758.0 29.85 760.0 29.92
70 760.1 29.93 757.6 29.82 758.6 29.86
65 762.0 30.00 757.5 29.82 758.2 29.85
60 760.8 29.96 757.7 29.83 758.7 29.86
55 761.1 29.97 758.1 29.84 759.7 29.91
50 762.3 30.03 758.9 29.92 760.7 29.95
45 763.0 30.04 759.6 29.90 761.5 29.98
40 763.9 30.08 760.0 29.92 762.0 30.00
35 764.8 30.11 759.8 29.91 762.4 30.02
30 765.0 30.11 759.3 29.89 761.7 29.99
25 764.0 30.08 758.5 29.86 760.4 29.94
20 762.3 30.03 758.0 29.84 759.2 29.89
15 760.5 29.24 757.5 29.82 758.3 29.85
10 759.1 29.88 757.7 29.80 757.9 29.84
 5 758.2 29.85 758.5 29.86 758.0 29.84
 0 758.0 29.84 759.1 29.88 758.0 29.84
  1. 1.0 1.1 Spitaler
  2. Ferrel

The difference in results shown in the foregoing tables are much too great to be attributed merely to observational error. Spitaler’s means were computed mainly from observations made in Europe; Ferrel’s from American data. Means obtained in latitudes lower than Lat 25 are from unknown sources. The following means were obtained at the Key West Weather Bureau Station, Lat 24° 33′.

  mm in   mm in   mm in
Jan. 764.40 30.09 May 761.58 29.98 Sept. 760.90 29.96
Feb. 764.08 30.08 June 761.80 29.99 Oct. 760.38 29.94
March 763.58 30.03 July 763.10 30.04 Nov. 763.05 30.07
April 762.90 30.03 Aug. 762.20 30.01 Dec. 764.34 30.09

Mean for the years 1891-1904, 762.69 mm, 30.03 in.