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.19 23 110 40
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The observations show that pressure was in defect to the SW of Luzon and to the N of Palawan on the 28th, but it does not appear that a cyclonic disturbance of any intensity existed at this time. On the 30th the observations point to low pressure in the neighbourhood of the Paracels. The barometer was inclined to fall at Hoihow, in Hainan, with gentle NE breezes while pressure was increasing slightly on the Cochin China coast the weather there being very wet and squally with fresh SW winds. On the 31st after 9 a. the barometer commenced to fall very rapidly at Hoihow with wind increasing from the ENE. At 2.30 p. the centre of a small typhoon (II) passed over the port with the lowest reading of the barometer 28.64 as recorded at the Custom House. The wind fell to almost a calm for twenty minutes and came again with typhoon force from the west. The barometer rose rapidly and the wind decreased quickly backing at the same time to SW.
The Hoihow observations of 9 a. on May 31st did not reach the Hongkong Observatory until 9.10 a. on June 1st, and then in a mutilated condition, and the existence of this depression as a definite cyclonic disturbance was therefore not known here at the time.
After passing over Hoihow the typhoon moved northwards and entered the coast of China, thence recurving to the NE. At noon on the 1st June the centre was situated in about 23° 30′, 112° 00′ and it passed to the north of Canton during the evening. On the 2nd June its course was towards ENE and a rapid decrease of pressure took place in the neighbourhood of Amoy. The centre was situate l in about 25, 116 at noon. Late the same evening it would appear to have regained the sea, as a small depression, to the north of Foochow, where the barometer had fallen to 29.58 at 9 p. with a strong WSW breeze and rain. Bad weather prevailed in the Formosa Channel on this day, particularly at the lighthouse stations in the north part of the Channel, where cyclonic gales, veering, with a rapid fall of the barometer, occurred during the evening.
June 16th, 11.3 a. "Pressure is lowest in the NW part of China Sea. Barometer unsteady. Fresh SE winds, squally, along S coast. Sea moderate. Weather fair to showery."
June 17th, 11.2 a. squally, along S coast.
June 18th, 10.23 a.
June 18th, 10.56 a. showery and squally."
June 18th, 4.10 p. westward."
"Pressure remains lowest in the NW part of China Sea. Fresh SE winds, Sea moderate. Weather showery."
"Depression in N part of Gulf of Tongking.”
"Barometer steady. Moderate SE to S winds. Sea moderate. Weather
Depression has entered coast to the East of Haiphong and is moving north-