Table 10.

First and oldest meteorological observations/measurements organized according to continents and parameters in HCLIM.

	Temperature	Air pressure	Precipitation	Number of rain days
Europe	Paris (1658)	Paris (1670)	Paris (1688)	Resterhafe-Osteel (1586)
Africa	Funchal (1747)	Funchal (1747)	Funchal (1747)	Freetown (1793)
Asia	Chandannagar (1741)	Beijing (1757)	Beijing (1757)	Beijing (1757)
North America	Charleston (1738)	Toronto (1734)	Cambridge (1742)	Charleston (1738)
Central- and South America	Westmoreland, Jamaica (1764)	Rio de Janeiro (1795)	Westmoreland, Jamaica (1760)	Mexico City (1775)
Australia	Sydney (1788)	Sydney (1788)	Paramatta (1822)	Sydney (1788)

The start year is given in parenthesis.