oggy mornings, days hot, |
| | | | | | | |nights and mornings cold. |
|March |89.5 |59.5|77.42|7 |3.669 |6 |Generally a very hot and |
| | | | | | | |oppressive month. |
|April |89.5 |67.5|77.91|7 |7.759 |6 |Showery, sultry, and |
| | | | | | | | oppressive weather. |
|May |88.0 |66.0|77.7 |8 |8.022 |6 |Cloudy, windy, rainy; |
| monsoon generally changes.|
|June |86.0 |71.0|76.69|8 |7.155 |6 |A very wet and stormy month.|
|July |86.0 |67.0|75.64|8 |5.72 |6 |Ditto ditto |
|August |85.5 |67.0|75.81|8 |8.55 |6 |Showery, but sometimes more |
| | | | | | | |moderate, variable |
|September |85.5 |67.0|76.13|8 |6.318 |6 |Pretty dry weather, compared|
| | | | | | | |with the next two months. |
|October |85.73|68.2|75.1 |8 |15.46 |6 |Wind variable, much rain. |
|November |84.0 |62.0|74.79|8 |14.732|6 |Wind variable, storms from |
| | | | | | | |all points of compass, wet; |
| | | | | | | |monsoon generally changes. |
|December |82.75|57.0|74.05|7 |7.72 |5 |Sometimes wet, but generally|
| | | | | | | |more moderate; towards |
| | | | | | | |end of year like January |
| | | | | | | |weather. |

Mean yearly Temperature, Mean yearly Nov. 29, 1858
75.92 deg Rainfall, 91.75 J.A. CALEY.
in. nearly.]

In all the mountain valleys, the soil being warmer than the air, vapour
abounds in the early morning for the most part of the year. It greatly
adds to the chilliness of travelling before dawn; but, generally
speaking, it is not wetting, as it is charged with the same electricity
as the surface of the earth and the human body. When seen from the
heights, it is a singular object, as it lies compact and white as snow
in the hollows beneath, but it is soon put in motion by the morning
currents, and wafted in the direction of the coast, where it is
dissipated by the sunbeams.

_Snow_ is unknown in Ceylon; _Hail_ occasionally falls in the Kandyan
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