The temperature is moderated by the north-east trade winds, which, somewhat modified by local conditions, blow throughout the year, briskly during the day and more mildly during the night.
The influence of the monsoon is greatly moderated before it reaches this region, and the rains sometimes fail altogether.
The climate is remarkably healthy, the heat due to its tropical situation being moderated by land and sea breezes.
He moderated, guided and in great measure realized the reform aspirations of the educated classes.
He moderated the lord-deputy's policy of deporting the Irish, and unlike him he paid some attention to the interests of the English settlers; moreover, again unlike Fleetwood, he appears to have held the scales evenly between the different Protestant sects, and his undoubted popularity in Ireland is attested by Clarendon.