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and SSE and decreasing. Thick blinding rain prevailed all day and there was a heavy confused sea, the latter causing the vessel to roll and pitch heavily. The jibboom broke off short at the cap and a couple of boats were washed away, The typhoon moved towards WNW and at midnight heavy squalls of wind and rain from SW were experienced at Hoihow, but by daylight on the 25th the wind had gradually calmed down. At Pakhoi they had the barometer falling with a fresh NW breeze and rain during the morning. In the afternoon the wind backed to West and decreased. The depression thus passed to the E and N of the port on the 25th but it had filled up to a great extent at this time. At noon the centre was situated in 21° 45,' 110° 15′ and the disturbance had traversed a distance of 220 miles during the past 24 hours thus giving it an average speed of about 9 miles per hour.
June 26th, 11.19 a. "Troughlike area of relatively low pressure appears to exist across the China Sea in about 17° latitude. Fresh NE winds are indicated to the northward and SW winds to the southward of the area. Sea moderate. Weather showery and squally."
June 27th, 10.10 a. Red Drum hoisted.
June 27th, 11.22 a. "Typhoon appears to be situated near S. Formosa. Observations from Swatow, Anping and Amoy not yet received. Moderate NW winds and fair weather probable here.”
June 27th, 5.30 p. Typhoon east of S. Formosa appears to be moving towards NNW.” June 28th, 11.15 a. "The barometer continues to fall on the S and SE Coasts. Moderate W winds and fine weather probable here. Observations from Swatow, Amoy and Anping not yet received."
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June 28th, 12.15 p. "The typhoon is East of Formosa moving slowly towards NNW at present. June 28th, 4.10 p. Red North Cone hoisted. "Bad weather prevails in the N part of the
Formosa Channel."
June 29th, 11.0 a. Red North Cone taken down.
June 29th, 11.28 a. "The typhoon has entered the coast between Foochow and Wenchow. Barometer rising slowly here. Moderate SW winds, squally, with thundershowers."
June 30th, 11.15 a. "The typhoon is moving northwards in the interior of Chiua to the West of Shanghai. Strong SE gales probable off E Coast. On S. Coast, barometer rising with strong SW monsoon and fair to showery weather."
The following noon observations refer to the typhoon indicated above:-
COAST STATIONS.
June 26th.
June 27th.
June 28th.
Turnabout,...
29.85
Tamsui, ..
Keelung,
NE 5 cm. 29.71 .92 SE 2 b. :82 ESE
op.
NE 77 .74 E .68 ESE
cm.
C.
20.56
NE 7
cmp.
.55
NE
5 opq.
cp.
.14
NE
6
op.
Amoy,
.78 NNE
.62
NNE 3
b.
.50
NNE
3 C.
Fisher Island,
.78
N
.57
NNE 6
cin.
.42 NNE 7 cm.
Lamocks,
.82
NE 3
.66
NE 4 cm.
.54
NE
C.
Anping,
.75 W 2 b.
.57
NNW 3 C.
.39
NW
3
C.
Hongkong,
.82 ESE
C.
.70
E
C.
.58 W
0.
South Cape,
.76 NE
0.
.55
N
6
omp.
37 SW
2
C.
Bolinao,
.72 W
0.
.62
WSW
0.
.65 SSE
0.
Manila,
.73 SW 4 0.
.66
SSW 5
oq.
.71
SW
or.
June 29th.
June 30th.
July 1st.
*Chinkiang, Woosung,
*Wuhu,
N. Saddle,
29.55
SE 3 b. .57. ENE .45 ENE 2 1. .56 SE
0.
cin.
Ningpo, *Kiukiang,
.52 NE 4 od. .51 NE 2 C.
Wenchow,
.11 NW
org.
Turnabout,
.40 SW 8 cmq.
.64
Tamsui,
.42 SW 8 C.
.68
29.47 NE 3 0. .39 E 7 C. .43 NNW 2 or. .52 SE 6 omr. .43 SE
0. .51 N
C. .49 SE 2 SSW 6
S 3 C.
29.38
WNW 5 .47 SW 4 .50 W 4 57 SSW
C.
om.
C.
6 om.
or.
om.
.71
.60 SE .52 NW .65 SE
S 75 SSW
0.
C.
1
C.
cm.
C.
Keelung,
.33 WSW
6
0.
.57
var.
Amoy,
.14
SW
1
C.
.60
Lamocks,
.52 SW
1.
South Cape,.
.54 WSW
7
cq.
3 C. SE 1 1}. .67 SW 4 .77 SW 5 cm.
.68
WNW
C.
.65
W
h.
cm.
.75 SI
(1.
.79
SI
C.
* The corrections to be applied to the barometer readings at these stations are unknown, and the above readings are therefore only approx). mately correct.'
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