A manuscript contained in the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, PA, USA, entitled Observations on the weather, giving date, barometer and thermometer readings, etc., Erscheinungsjahr, May 1872 - June 1873 provides daily instrumental meteorological observations and weather observations in a non-specified missionary station of the Moravian Brethren in Labrador. The daily observations cover the time period from 29 May 1872 to 3 July 1873 with an 8-day break in December 1872. According to these data, the temperature in this area was, on the average, about 2.6 °C lower than in present. |