922 SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE OF 2nd OCT.,
1896.
At 10 a. on the 14th the centre may have been about 21° N, 131° E. A fresh N breeze accom. panied by detached clouds was reported from Bolinao. The weather was fine and dry but very hot both in Manila and in SEastern China. Strong N breezes were felt along the E Coast of China.
At 10 a. on the 15th the centre was in 27° N, 132o E. At the time the British barque Areola was situated within a few miles of the centre. The barometer fell to about 27.4 (uncorrected). Heavy rain and full typhoon force of the wind were encountered before the centre. The S.S. City of Peking bound from Yokohama to Hongkong encountered a terrific NE typhoon, with heavy confused sen and thick rain at1 a. on the 16th, when the lowest reading 29.05 of the barometer was registered. The wind backed to NW in the course of the morning and calmed down to a fresh breeze. The S.S. Bellona, bound from Kobe to Shanghai ran into the NE quadrant of the typhoon and encountered a NE gale increasing to typhoon force at 10.30 p. accompanied by a terrible sea. The lowest reading of the barometer 28.82 (uncorrected) was registered at 1 a. on the 16th. Subsequently the wind backed to NW and decreased in force.
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At 10 a. on the 16th the centre appears to have been in 35° N, 141° E. The force of this ty phoon was felt on shore in Japan as reported in the Tridaily Weathermaps of the Tokio Observatory. In the beginning of November several deep depressions accompanied by violent storms travelling eastward passed across Northern China, Korea and the Sea. of Japan. On the 5th the barometer began to fall over Southern China and the Philippine Islands, but it was rising in the north, so that gradients for NE winds increased. Moderate NNE gales were encountered by ships near Cochin-China and fresh N breezes in the Mindoro Sea. At 10 a. on the 6th the centre of Typhoon X appears to have been about 13° N, 126° E. Light airs and fine weather were reported from Luzon. The air was very dry along the SE Coast of China but damp in Luzon. In the afternoon the inhabitants of Cama- rines Nortes (14° N, 122° E) became aware of the approach of the typhoon, though the barometer was registered 29.80. In the evening it blew in strong gusts, from the NE and the wind began to back towards N. The barometer fell quickly in the course of the night and it blew a storm from NW. At 8a 36 next morning the wind calmed down for about 2 minutes and the sky cleared.--The S.S. Whampoa at the time in the Mindoro Sea experienced a fresh N breeze, a NE swell, very hot and cloudy weather and passing showers of rain.-Cloudy and wet weather with a S breeze and falling barometer were registered at Iloilo. ··
At 10 a. on the 7th the centre appears to have been in 14° 22′ N, 122° 38′ E.
During the pre- ceding hour the wind had backed to W in Camarines Nortes. The lowest reading of the barometer 28.19 was registered at 10.15 a. The wind blew then with great force from SW and after 11 a. from $ but calmed down after 2.15 p. At 10 a. a moderate NW breeze and overcast squally and wet weather was reported from Manila (barometer 29.74). During the day it backed towards W a moderate WNW gale was reported at 4 p. and it blew a fresh W gale at 7 p. The lowest reading of the baro- meter 29.47 was registered about 6 p.-At Bolinao it blew a fresh NNE gale at 4 p. and a heavy swell was observed in the sea. At 9 p. it blew a strong NNW gale. The barometer had then fallen to 29.53. At sea NW of Luzon it blew heavily from the N with a high NNE sea. In the evening the centre entered Northern Luzon and crossed it during the night with most disastrous consequences to the inhabitants. At 10 a. on the 8th the centre appears to have been about 19° N, 121o E. Light winds and fine and dry weather prevailed along the Coast of China. In Luzon it was overcast and light rain fell while light S and SW breezes were reported from Manila and Bolinao. At S. Cape it blew a strong NE breeze in the afternoon, the weather became overcast and misty, drizzling rain fell and the in the barometer descended to 29.68 at 9 p. On the same morning it blew a moderate NE gale at Keelung, but the barometer fell only a few hundredths. It appears therefore now most likely that the centre of this typhoon took a NE course. At 10 a. on the 9th it may possibly have been about 23° N, 126° E, but for want of observations it is impossible to follow this typhoon.
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Comparatively little reference to observations made on board ship has been made in the prece ding pages. Unequalled facilities are offered here for collecting such and if all the observation forwarded by cominanders of men-of-war or merchant vessels or copied from the logbooks of ship passing through the harbour were to have been inserted, the size of this report would have exceeded the limits. Nor has as a rule any reference been made to the damage caused by typhoons on board or on shore, the description of which lies outside the subject of meteorology proper and may be read in the newspapers.
Were all this to have been included, the report would have swelled into a stout volume The paths of the typhoons are represented on the following six plates copied by a native photoli thographer from the original drawings, the four first of which were finished more than a year ago The different portions of the curves are of very different degrees of accuracy as will appear from the text. Where the path for want of sufficient observations is not known beyond doubt, the curve dotted. The and numbers of the typhoons are printed in the corner. The months are
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printed af the beginning of or elsewhere near the curve and the dates are inserted at the position of the centre at 10 a. on each day. On the first plate the names of the months in which the first and the second typhoons appear have been entered erroneously. The first typhoon should have June not July affixed, and the second should have July not June affixed.
Hongkong Observatory, 31st August. 1886.
W. DOBERCK, Government Astronomer.
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