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the six warmest months (May to October), and the excess of late summer (August to October) rainfall over that for early summer (April to June), in inches.*

 TABLE 19.
Selected Climatological Data for Weather Stations in Central Florida, Grouped by Regions.
 Temperature Rainfall
 Growing Per cent in Excess
 Jan. July Year Season An- 4 nos 6 mos.in late s(days) nua 4 summer
 WEST COAST
Cedar Keys --------- 57.6 | 82.2 70.3 .------ 51.53 57.2 66.1 6.9
Tarpon Springs ----- 58.7 80.8 70.9 ------ 50.27 63.1 70.8 7.8
LIME-SINK REGION
Rockwell ---------- 57.1 81.8 70.7 52.55 59.2 70.1 5.4
Inverness ----------- 55.8 80.4 69.5 --- 51.74 59.3 69.7 3.1
Tampa ------------- 57.4 80.0 70.4 335 51.49 62.7 72.7 6.4
MID. FLA. HAMMOCKI I I I I
 BELT I I I
Ocala -------------- 57.4 81.4 70.2 294 51.64 59.6 71.3 4.3
 HERNANDO HAMMoCK BELT
Brooksville ---------- 58.0 80.8 70.8 1 3111 55.97 62.1 72.5 4.9
St. Leo ------------ 58.3 1 81.5 71.5 ------ 58.22 60.9 71.5 3.7
 LAKE REGION I
Orange City -------- 58.2 82.3 I 71.1 --- 47.33 55.9 71.4 6.4
Eustis -------------- 58.4 82.2 I 71.4 ------ 47.40 56.3 68.8 6.2
Clermont ------------ 59.9 82.8 I 72.6 ------ 48.71 58.7 71.3 5.7
WESTERN FLATWOODS I I I I
Tampa ------------- 57.4 I 80.0 1 70.4 335 51.49 62.7 72.7 6.4
Plant City --------- 60.0 81.0 71.4 ------ 55.40 61.5 74.8 6.8
Bartow -------------- 60.1 81.9 I 72.4 315 51.84 60.6 74.1 5.8
Fort Meade -------- 59.2 80.6 | 71.2 ------ 58.51 62.6 76.3 6.0
EASTERN FLATWOODS I
Kissimmee ---------. 60.3 82.0 j 72.0 ------ 52.471 55.6 70.5 6.3
 EAST COAST I
New Smyrna ------- 57.9 1 79.8 1 69.7 1 3111 50.95 49.3 68.0 9.1
Titusville ----------- 59.7 I 80.8 70.9 .------ 51.22| 54.3 73.5 4.5
Merritt's Island ---- 62.0 81.4 72.7 ------ 150.54 50.4 69.4 5.7


 Throughout the area under consideration the average temperature for any or all months varies only a few degrees from one place
to another, probably not as much as it does for the same place in different years. The growing season varies more, though, from

 *For a discussion of the significance of this seasonal precipitation factor see Science II. 48:208-211. Aug. 30, 1918. Its relation to the distribution of oil wells in the United States has been pointed out in the chapter on economic geology (page i6o).