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relative humidity, dew point, vapor pressure, wind direction and velocity, sunshine, cloudiness and rainfall, while at Bas Obispo the evaporation experiments above referred to are conducted; at Ancon on the Pacific, and Cristobal on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus, records of the tides and ocean temperature are taken.

Alhajuela, Bohio and Gatun are recording wind direction and velocity, and rainfall. Brazos Brook, Tabernilla, San Pablo, Gamboa, Empire, Camacho, Culebra, Rio Grande and La Boca are recording only rainfall.

The pressure, temperature, relative humidity, wind direction and velocity, sunshine and rain are recorded hourly, thus showing the hour of the day most affected by these elements.

The mean and annual temperature on the Pacific side is slightly higher than that on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus. The mean temperature for the Canal Zone is about 80 degrees Fah.

The

The year is divided sharply into two seasons, dry and rainy, the latter lasting from April to December. heaviest rains usually occur in November.

The precipitation is greatest on the Atlantic Coast, where the mean annual rainfall is 128.19 inches at Cristobal, and least on the Pacific side, where it is 48.43 inches at Naos.

A table giving a synopsis of the climatological data of the Isthmus follows, as also a statement showing the maximum, minimum and mean rainfall at the stations of Cristobal, Gorgona, Culebra and Panama.

The Bureau of Meteorology and River Hydraulics (afterwards raised to a Division), under which all hydrographic and meteorological studies are made, was established June 14, 1905, by former Chief Engineer Wallace. Mr. Ricardo M. Arango, who had served as Consulting Engineer during the installation of the water and sewerage system of Panama has been in charge of the Division since its inception.

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The above table is in local Panama time and is computed for Lati

The New York Restaurant.

Only Short Order House on the Canal Zone.

Oysters and Fish, a Specialty.

Ice Cream and Candies.

LOCATED NEAR THE PANAMA RAILROAD DEPOT AND CONVEN IENT TO THE TRAVELING PUBLIC.

Quick Service,

Reasonable Prices.

GANDOLFO & RAFFO, Proprietors.

EMPIRE,

CANAL ZONE.

tude 8 deg., 57 min., and 16 sec. north; longitude 79 deg., 31 min., and 4 sec. west.

Colon is in Latitude 9 deg., 22 min., 16 sec. north; longitude 79 deg., 52 min., and 27 sec. west, the difference between local Colon time and local Panama time being about two minutes. By deducting therefore two minutes from the figures on the above table will give the correct sunrise and sunset time at Colon.

PANAMA'S MORALS IN THE '70S Things are looking up in morals. We have good authority for stating that a mule was baptized the other day, and now the pleasing intelligence comes from Aspinwall that a five-foot alligator went to church in that quiet and respectable town last Sunday. The donkey had the precedence in the entry into Jerusalem, but his morals were not stated, and for the above ceremony they concluded they would have a good mule, no common donkey, but an orthodox mule or none, so they baptized the candidate and branded him with the sign of the holy cross.Panama Star & Herald in 1872.

Mean.

(37) (37) 3.99 1.39

(38) (37)

STATIONS:
COLON:

UM A RAINFALL

AT COLON, GORGONA, CULEBRA, & PANAMA.
JAN'Y FEB'Y MARCH APRIL

MAY JUNE JULY

AUG.

SEP. OCT. NOV.

DEC.

(37) (37)

1.52 4.31

12.17

13 18

Max.

19.20 6.49

9.17

21.73

23.00

22.00

27.68 25.43

(36) (36) (36) (37) (36)
16.49 15.08 12.45
22.99

(36)

13.81 21.13

12.08

30.32

43.01

30.94

(Year)

1902 1899

1886

1895

1891

1872

1899

1883 1890

1872 1862

1893

Min.

0.63

0.04

0.02

0.43

1.63

6.41

9.07

5.78

5.35

5 83

7.05

0.94

(Year) GORGONA: Mean. Max. (Year)

1889 1897

1865

1899

1871

1899

1905

1902

1867

1897

1884

1873

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13.03 8.24 11.86 3.45 13.87 11.90 11.76 5.48
25.12 13.54 19.72 19.88 15.98 18.42
1897 1900 1898 1897 1894
1894 1897
4.00 5.16 .8.98 11.25 7.72 7.16
1895 1896
1896 1900 1898 1897

17.27 7.91

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1906 1888
(10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10)
862 9.00 8.52 6.91 7.91 11.03 11.42 3.09
11.22 13.78 15.82 11.46 15.06 20.27 19.21 5.52
1879 1879 1900 1881 1900 1880 1901 1900 1879 1906

0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00 4.44 5.00 4.31 4.05 4.05 4.35 6.46 0.98
1882 1900 1882 18.99 1907 1880 1905 1882 1882 1906 1880 1879
1901
1900-1

NOTE: Nos. in parentheses denote years of observation. * 1885, 1887, 1900, 1902, 1903, 1904. ** 1885, 1897, 1898, 1900, 1901.

3.95 2.92 5.35 1903 1888 1885

6.22 5.75

6.69

0.35

1899

1900

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While the temperature of Panama is necessarily
high and enervating during the day, the nights are
comparatively cool and refreshing. The uniformity
of temperature prevailing throughout the Isthmus is
strikingly illustrated in the record of fifty-six cities
and towns situated in widely-scattered parts of the
country, some on the Caribbean coast, some on the
Pacific coast, and others in the hills in the interior.
The coolest town shows a mean temperature of 77

deg Fahr.; the warmest 81.6 deg. Fahr., the average
for the entire number being 79.5 deg. Fahr. The
extreme range of temperature nowhere exceeds 35
degrees; the thermometer rarely falls below 68 deg.
Fahr. or rises above 95 deg. Fahr., though in Colon
104 deg. Fahr. was registered on one occasion. The
humidity is excessive reaching as high as
90 per
cent. in the mornings during the rainy season, and
75 per cent. in the afternoons.

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