=========+===========+=========+=========+=====+=============+====== Month | Monthly | Monthly| Monthly|Rela-| Mean |Number | Mean | Absolute| Absolute| tive| Monthly | of |Temperature| Maxima | Minima | Hu-| Rainfall | Rainy +-----+-----+---+-----+---+-----+midi-+-----+-------+ Days | F. | ~C.~ |F.| ~C.~ |F.| ~C.~ | ty | Ins.| ~Mm.~ | ---------+----+------+--+------+--+------+-----+-----+-------+------ January |58·8|~14·8~|82|~27·8~|15|~-9·4~| 79 | 5·17|~130·9~| 11 February |58·1|~14·4~|82|~27·8~|25|~-3·9~| 81 | 4·56|~115·7~| 10 March |62·0|~16·7~|84|~28·9~|30|~-1·1~| 76 | 5·35|~135·9~| 9 April |69·0|~20·6~|88|~31·1~|38| ~3·3~| 76 | 5·28|~133·5~| 8 May |74·6|~23·7~|92|~33·3~|53|~11·7~| 74 | 4·76|~120·7~| 9 June |80·3|~26·8~|97|~36·1~|58|~14·4~| 78 | 6·49|~165·0~| 14 July |82·2|~27·9~|99|~37·2~|67|~19·4~| 78 | 6·50|~165·1~| 16 August |81·5|~27·5~|96|~35·6~|63|~17·2~| 79 | 6·02|~153·6~| 14 September|78·3|~25·7~|95|~35·0~|56|~13·3~| 77 | 4·70|~119·4~| 11 October |69·8|~21·0~|90|~32·2~|40| ~4·4~| 74 | 3·25| ~82·5~| 7 November |60·7|~15·9~|85|~29·4~|30|~-1·1~| 79 | 4·30|~109·2~| 9 December |55·5|~13·1~|81|~27·2~|20|~-6·7~| 80 | 4·38|~111·7~| 4 ---------+----+------+--+------+--+------+-----+-----+-------+------ Year |68·8|~20·4~|99|~37·2~|15|~-9·4~| 78 |60·52|~153·7~| 128 =========+====+======+==+======+==+======+=====+=====+=======+====== The amenity of the climate of Florida is proverbial, as the maxima rarely run so high, and the annual and daily range is much smaller than is the case further west, owing to the effect of the Gulf Stream, which sweeps out past its projecting shore. On this account there is an almost entire absence of frost, and the State has become celebrated for its cultivation of oranges, a fruit which is at once nipped by any approach to freezing point. Dr. Solly describes it as follows:-- “The climate is marine in character, and is very equable and temperate for its latitude. The mean annual temperature runs from 69° at Sanford to 79·8° at Jacksonville; for the winter, the variation is from 54·6° at Pensacola to 66·5°, at Jupiter. Frost, snow and ice are very rare. Annual rainfall varies from 53·19 inches at Pensacola to 57·16 at Cedar Keys; of this, one half usually occurs in the summer. The mean relative humidity varies from 76 per cent. at Pensacola to 80 at Cedar Keys. In the winter months it is from 76 to 87 per cent. The total number of rainy days ranged from 103·8 at Cedar Keys to 124·1 at Pensacola, and the number of cloudy days in the same places was 66.8 and 84·5. Dr. Hall, while admitting the prevalence of malaria, states that there are many places quite free from it, and that it is generally diminishing.”