I have had some difficulty in making the undermentioned
calculations, but considered generally, the table represents
pretty accurately the mean temperature for ten recent years:
Buxton
45.2
Leamington
48.0
Cheltenham
48.3
Clifton
48.7
HARROGATE
49.0
Torquay
49.8
Bath
50.3
Bournemouth
50.3
Llandudno
50.5
In considering the various factors which conduce to the
temperature of Harrogate, several items must be taken into
consideration, jointly and severally. It is not fair, in reckoning
the mean temperature of a health resort, to gauge it by one part
of the year that is, the summer (say from May till November),
and the winter (from November till May).
In the summer months, Harrogate requires no laudation as to
dryness and sunshine; in the winter, it has more than its share.
High altitudes, in winter, with dryness and sunshine, are all to
the front in the present time, and Harrogate stands well.
To be short, precise, and explanatory - "the mean
temperature" may be the same in two places, and yet the
thermal conditions in one place may be intolerable and unsuitable
for delicate persons, and the other may be just as genial.
The maximum temperatures of Harrogate are lower than in some
Health Resorts in the South, but the readings of the minimum
thermometer range higher generally, resulting in a coldness, which
is more bearable - thus giving a temperature which is as tolerable
as most of those places which claim to have warmer climates.
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