Excerpt from Mean Temperatures and Their Corrections in the United States C. The time of the occurrence of the minimum temperature, making allowance for the season and the time of sunrise, is also determined' by the nature of the locality. Over a purely marine locality the minimum occurs always a certain time (from 1 to 2 hours) before sunrise, and over dry and arid regions, in the interior of continents, and especially in deserts, almost exactly at the time of sunrise or a little (15 minutes) later. In the winter months, however, the time of the occurrence of the mini. Mum is always much earlier than sunrise, and so it is only in localities with continental climates that the minimum occurs m winter about the time of sunrise, as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.