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HOISTING OF TYPHOON SIGNALS
Inconvenience Should Be
Borne Philosophically
MR. C. W. JEFFRIES ADDRESSES
THE ROTARY CLUB
INTERESTING DETAILS
CONCERNING TYPHOONS
1
Speaking on the subject, "Weather, and All That," at the weekly tiffin of the Hong Kong Rotary Club held in the Jacobear Room of the Hong Kong Hotel yesterday afternoon, Mr. C. W. statistics regarding local Jeffries, F.R.A.S., Director of the Royal Observatory, gave interesting weather and referring to typhoons stated that it was a melancholy fact that, the small typhoon was a greater problem to the forecasier than the large one.
The hoisting of typhoon signals, said Mr. Jeffries, caused much and loss of working time, but these inconveniences should be regarded as disaster and be" philosophically borne
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disturbance of routine insurance agałost
In referring to the track of a typhoon, he stated, the expression "moging" was used, or This crystallised the "it will probably move"-it was seldom possible to say "It will move." situation, and left meteorology as a science stiil unworthy of the adjective "exact.”
Heather
on ce-appeared
the world. They have occurred in all. toaa.orning of the 18th. Icicles be- months of the years, but the aver- Hall has tween 6ins. and I ft. long appearage is 35 per annum.
never been observed in Hong Kong to have festooned the Peak tram
to my knowledga
The Fresident, Mr. W. N. Thomas
members Tam reminded next Tuesday would be Ladies Day when
Barker Mrs. Mary would tell them something about the work of the Society for the
Protection of Children. The meeting will be held in the Roof
Garden
"His Excellency the Governor and Lady Caldecott have express- ea their intention to be present," | fald Mr. Tam, and it is to be hoped that as many members as possible will turn up and bring with them
their ladies whether their wives or their they be
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station, hear frost whitened the and rime covered pine hills b. anches were gathered by the
curiosities. Chinese as
It is stated that two members of the legal profession were discovered in the entirely legal occubation of
1 slide in raking
ปี roadway. (Laughter). It is remarkable that the nearest approach to auch con- ditions was on February 4, 1901, when the mean temperature was 41.5 deg. 6 deg. warmer than the coldest day of the earlier period. During one of our hot Summer days it would seem incredible that such conditions could ever obtain within the tropics,
sweethearta!"
Dealing with the subject of Mr. Jerles' talk, Mr. Tam said that they all knew that fickleness was not the prerogative of women and
There are no details available apparently the weather like wo- men required only to be interest. concerning the August 19, 1900, If, when at home, they willing. He hope that Mr. Jeffries when the temperature of 9 deg. You have probably was recorded. call or telephone to the above would give them that perfect un-
derstanding whether they be in heard of higher temperatures in address, they will receive the the world of women or in the other parts of the world, but the world of atmospherics. Laugh-temperaure of 97 deg, was obtain- utmost assistance and the
from ec ter).
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THE ADDRESS
RAINFALI. The mean annual rainfall is from 1.27 85.16 inches; ranging Mr. Jeffries sald in parti-
inches in January to 15.52 inches The weather is an unfailing to- in June. On seven occasions no pic of conversation, and in a place rainfall has been registered dur like this Colony, where weathering a whole month. The greatest conditions can be of a dramatic recorded rainfall was 48.84 inches nature, the habit of diaqussing in May 1889. The greatest rain- Weather amounts to 3 disease, fall in one civil day was 21,03 from which everyone suffers more unches on July 10, 1926, when 3.9% or leas. When Arst I consented inches fell from 3.30 in 4.30 am. to address you,
Sunshine
dramatic a typhoon had
is not threatened the Colony for two meteorological element, and calls days, and subsequently departed for little remark beyond the fact towards Swatow.
average yearly sunshine Automatically, or the
(1967 hours), 773 hours occur from January to June and 1194 from July to December
my Department loomed large in the public eye, not to mention zlat of the Chairman of your pro- gramme Committee, hance my presence to-day, presumably to talk about the weather, and pos- ally to justify the opinion of many people that I know nothing about it. (Laughter). I am con- soled, however. by the recolec- tion of a remark that I heard re- cently to the effect that to ad- dress this Club, it was not neces- sary to be an expert on one's sub- ject. (Laughter).
"CLIMATE"
The term "Weather" may be
taken to include all the changing atmospheric conditions which affect mankind. By meteorolo gists the term li used in a limited sense to denote the state of the sky, whether rain or snow is fall- ing, fog prevalent etc. at the time or observation; the normal con- ditions to be expected during the march of the seasons at a place, being more accurately designated
Towards the end of Winter, fog becomes prevalent owing to the occasional onset of warm, damp. southerly winds. Similarly when the Winter monsoon re-establishes itself after these temporary set- backs, we experience periods of
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know, these pericas alternate with the periods of singularly clear and dry weather, which character'se our Winter months to a gŢCAL EX-
tent. These dry and clear periods THE Undersigned have resived
would be productive of frost else- where, and hoar trás has been deposited "upon the higher levels; It was affirmed by the late Buper- Intendent of Fanling that oc- casionally occurred on some of the more sheltered spots on the Golf course; but of this I have no per- sonal knowledge.
TYPHOONS
Of course, reference must be made to typhoons. Of late years they seem to be somewhat chary of approaching the Colony, and Previously to August 17 this year, the last occasion when dainage was done was in August 1831 when, a wind velocity of 136 mp...was reached. Our recent Immunity must not cause us to disregard the fact that in the 5 years,(1884- 1933) the Colony has experienced 74 typhoon gales,, 1.0. 3. in 2 years upon an average. It may occur to some of my listeners that dur- ing these 50 years the typhoon been hoisted con- signals have siderably more than 74 times.
This is undoubtedly true but it. does not follow that they were hosted unjustifiably,"
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QUANTITY OF FALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Comprising:
Black Wood Ware, Teak Office & Drawing Room Furniture, Bed Room and Dining Room Furniture, Electric Befrigerators, Table Fans & Lamps, Typewriters, Bowing Machines, Gra mophones and Records, Carpets & Ruga, Porcelain and Glass Ware, Pictures, Glass & E. P. Ware, Cutlery, Brass and Aluminium Ware,
Ics Cheats, Ornaments, Radio Beta, Enamelled Bathe, Upright Planes,
An impression prevalls that once Curios, Wardrobe Trunks, etc., etc.
a typhoon is located the forecaster should have little difficulty in sup- plying a more or less exact post- tion and direction of motion to any casual enquirer upon request, Figures representing the actual
(Laughter) whereas, positions can humidity of the air are not neces-
only be deduced from synoptic ob- sarily an index of human reactions
servations which are received twice to unpleasant conditions, and in
per day. Inferences can be made meteorological statistics we And
from past experience to All in the the term Relative Humidity. The amount of moisture which the air
Intervals, but the fact remains can contain a vapour, depends
that the tracks of typhoons have not the upon temperature. Saturation ne-
regularity which would justify the forecaster in any ing represented by 100 at any tem-
alternative perature, and mader figures de-
but treating each noting the percentage of satura-typhoon as a separate problem as
It is obvious that the high-it comes along, er the degree of saturation of the air, the less is its capacity fo causing evaporation, and without evaporation from the skin, the human being is rendered pra- gressively uncomfortable with ris- ing temperature.
tion
RECORDING GUSTS OF WIND
Previous to 1910 there was no apparatus at the Royal Observa-
At the beginning of August, -1 distressed the Colony by a display of the No. 7 signal for two days, and nothing happened except the thunderstorms of August "2, when the disturbance
ashore. went Nevertheless at Pratas «Ehoal 180 miles B. E. of Hong Kong. wind maintained male Torce for more than 30 hours, during 12 hours of which typhoon force war
the
tory capable of recording gusts experienced. In Hong Kong dur of wind and the maxima recording this period, the wind did not rise above the strength of a fresh breeze.
as "Climate," "An address upon ed slurs by the Fines Anamo- climate would simply bristle with graph are 130 miles per hour on statistics, and would take far too August 18, 1923 136 miles per long for an occasion of this kind. hour on August 1, 1931, and 132 Our Colony is situated on the miles per hour on August 17, 1936, occasion of the recent southern sea-board of ásta, just on the within the Tropics; and is sub typhoon, Jest to the infuence of the sum-
These gusts occurred during "nier and winter monsoons, which hours in which the average vela
prevali from May to September cities of the wind, as registered by and October to April respectively, the old Beckley instrument were The transitions from one Monsoon | 106, 94, and 97 miles per hour, so t: the other are not usually ab- that although the highest velocity rept, and these periods correspond registered by the old Instrument with the Autumn and spring of was 108 miles per hour on July other countrieïensingt
9, 1898 It does not follow that a higher "gust "than: 136 milta per hour, was experienced on that oc-
COLDEST PERIOD
It is worthy of note that the casion although the possiblity re- minimum temperature of 12 deg. maina occurred near 7 am on JanuMTY. 18, 1883, during the coldest period ever experienced in the Colony.
The 15th, 18th, and 17th were overcast and over an inch of rain fell on the 15th and 16th, ane
THUNDERSTORMA- Thunderstorms are a feature of local weather and are probably accompanied by electrical displays Unsurpassed anywhere gin
the
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Until a few weeks ago there were doubtless many of my Hearers whe had not experienced a typhoon, for previously to August 11 last, the Colony had been imununt, from destructive kales for 5 years. DI am afraid that these years of im-
of dieap manity bred a sense pointment in the breasts · of ~2 number of newcomers and the de- Is September 1922, a typhoon sire to see a typhoon has often which passed a similar distance to been expressed in any hearing. It the. South of the Colony caused 16 view with which s gale in the harbour lasting possibly sympathise, (Laughter) 27 hours, Fine weather was ex for a typhoon is an unpleasant perienced in the harbour when anair with wind, rain, washawBYS a vessel 30 miles South East and general damage se regular ut Gap Rock was experiencing concomitants, and shipwreck and a typhoon gale. These instances loss of life, as terrible possibilities, illustrate the varying area of a
To anywho, having seen one, typhoon, and explain why typhoon still desire another, I would re- signals seem occasionally mneces commend the study of the photo- sary Their holating causes much graphs or the damage done off the disturbance of routine and loss of 18th of September, 1906, and working time, but these incon the secounts of the loss of ure veniences should be regarded as thereby entailed There must be an insurance, against, disaster and very few of the inhabitants of, the ha philosophically borne.
Colony who actually remember, this disaster, but I fm prepared to state that in their case the wish to see a typhoon died 20. years ago.
PHEVALENCE-
Typhoons are most prevalent in August and September and we may therefore be hopeful that the busy Besson for this year is now bast.
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