Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical and historical . ich they are distributed through the seasons. In describing climate, the first place must unquestionably be given to the temperature ofthe district during the different months of the year, it being this which portrays the mainfeatures of the climate, and not the mean temperature of the whole year. Thus, while theannual temperature of the east and west coasts are nearly equal, the winter and summer tem-peratures are widely different. At Oban the winter and summer temperatures are 39°-4 a
Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical and historical . ich they are distributed through the seasons. In describing climate, the first place must unquestionably be given to the temperature ofthe district during the different months of the year, it being this which portrays the mainfeatures of the climate, and not the mean temperature of the whole year. Thus, while theannual temperature of the east and west coasts are nearly equal, the winter and summer tem-peratures are widely different. At Oban the winter and summer temperatures are 39°-4 and57°.2, whereas at Barry, in Forfarshire, they are 37°.2 and 59°.o, the annual range of tempera-ture being thus respectively i7°.8 and 2i°.8. In this brief notice of our Scottish climate theremarks on temperature will be confined to January and July, inasmuch as they are representa-tive of the two extreme seasons of the year. The accompanying two small charts show theisothermal, or line of equal temperature, for these months, which thus offer in a handy formthe climatic phases of the The Winter Temperature.—The outstanding feature of the lines of winter temperature istheir general north and south direction; and hence they are approximately parallel to themeridians and at right angles to the parallels of latitude. From this direction of the isother-mals it is plain that the peculiar geographical distribution of the winter temperature is notdetermined by the sun, but is ruled by the ocean, which imparts its greater warmth to theclimate by the prevailing westerly winds. The Atlantic may be regarded as a vast repository ofheat, in which the higher temperature of the summer months, and in some degree that of moresouthern latitudes also, is treasured up in reserve against the rigours of winter. Further, duringexceptionally cold seasons, the ocean effectually protects all places in its more immediateneighbourhood against such severe frosts as occur in inland sit
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