Note 10 — Chapter II
Reading edition
The only accurate information that I have found respecting the climate of Lima is contained in a paper by Rouand y Paz Soldan, “Resumen de las Observaciones Meteorologicas hechas en Lima durante 1869,” quoted in the French translation of Grisebach’s “Vegetation du Globe.” Reduced to English measures, they give the following results:—
Mean temperature of four years 66·6° Fahr.
” ” January, 1869 74·3° ”
” ” July, 1869 57·6° ”
Rainfall in the year 1869 13·4 inches.
” June, 1869 2·45 ”
” July, 1869 2·72 ”
” August, 1869 2·48 ”
” September, 1869 2·33 ”
” October, 1869 2·16 ”
” remaining seven months 1·24 ”
There is reason to think that the temperature for July, 1869, given above was exceptionally low, and although the months during which fogs prevail are abnormally cool for a place within 13° of the equator, I believe that the thermometer rarely falls below 60° Fahr.