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THE WEATHER
OF SEPTEMBER
Full Description Of Typhoon
The weather during the menth
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WANT MORE JUDGES
British Barristers To **Strike?"
A proposal that all members of was mainly sunny and warm, with the legal profession in Great Bri- the exception" of two short spells | taln should refuse to act in Foor of bad weather due to typhoons. Persons cases until the number of full description is given below of King's Bench Judges is increased the severe typhoon of September has been made in London. 1st-2nd. A second typhoon passed about 180 miles, to the 53W of the Colony, at 8 a.m. on the 19th, mov- Ing WNW. It gave almost con- tinuous rainfall in Hong Kong on the 19th and 20th, but no very strong winds, the highest gust be- Ing only 47 m.ph.
1. The mean temperature for the month was 82.1 deg. F, which is 1.5 deg. above normal. A maximum of 90.6 deg. was recorded on the 18th, and a minimum of 74.6 deg. ! on the 2nd during the passage of the typhoon. Temperature rose to D0.5 deg. on the 27th, an unusually high figure for the end of Septem- ber. The mean relative humidity was 82 per cent, against a normal of 79 per cent.
Sunshine amounted to 208 nours. against a normal of 199 hours. The total rainfall was 12.53 inches: although this amount is 2.42 Inches in excess of normal, the rainfall was almost entirely confined to two spells of two days each, due to Lyphoons.
THE TYPHOON
The typhoon was first detected Over the Pacific to the east.. nt Luzon on August 28th. Its position was not known with any certainty until the morning of August 31st.
when
over the
it was situated castern end of the Ballatang Chan- nel. At that time a trough of low pressure extended from Indo China to the Carolines, while pressure was high over Japan and the neigh-
bouring seas. It seemed likely that the typhoon would continue to move WNW, and this proved to be the case.
The centre passed to the north of Pratas Shoal at 5 p.m. on Sept. 1st. By then it was reasonably certain that the typhoon would pass sufficiently near to Hong Kong to give winds of gale force. From this point until it reached Hong Kong. its direction of motion was 290 deg. (approximately WNW), and its speed 17 knots. The aver- age speed of typhoons in
this latitude is 11 knots.
The author of the plan is a cor- respondent of "The Law Journal" "'Nobody IM authority," the writer declares, seriously deales that the Judiciary ought to be considerably increased in number. But to do so would require legis- lation, and the subject has no publicity value from the point of view of a Government seeking to retain a majority in the next Parliamentary Election.
THREAT TO TAKE HEAD
Scene In Johore Court
Abdul Kadir bin Bearan Kunji a Malayalee was charged before Sheika Abu Bakar (Second Magis- trate) with criminal intimidation by going to an callagshop in Jalan Ah Fook at 8 p.m., on August 25 and threatening the proprietor. named Mohamed Kunji bin Ahmad. with violence. A witness stated that accused said he would take with complainant's head away him.
After the complainant had given evidence, accused in a statement from the dock, said that he had Just come out of prison and, had no work." The present case brought against him was a false one,
The complainant had taken away Accused then said he his son, meant taken away his nephew, ten year of age, and also his niece. 2
"But if it could be shewn that that need for additional Judges sprang solely from a desire to ob- taln Justice for the poor, then at once, in my submission, an, over-years of age. whelming incentive for the "neces- sary legislation would be supplied.
"I hope that many people will express an opinion that this sug- gestion is harsh and inequitable, for It is only when injustice has been made manifest that justice can at last be done.
"We are by no means sure of the efficacy of the pian." Is the comment of the Journal,
The wind at the Observatory veered from N through E to SE while the centre was passing, at the same time decreasing appreciably in velocity and then rising again to another maximum gust of 124 m.b.h. from ESE at 4.45 a.m. From then onwards it gradually fell away to a fresh wind by li a.m.
Rainfall ceased almost entirely from 3 to 3.50 a.m. The heavlest fall occurred after the SE wind
In reply to the Magistrate the complainant emphatically denied this.
The
The accused then rushed out of the door of the dock, pushing the policeman on guard aside. P.C.. however. hung on to him until two other policemen who were in the courthouse rushed up. He was convicted, and on admit- ting three previous convictions, all for causing hurt, he was sen- tenced to undergo three months' rigorous labour and had to be forcibly removed from the dock.
JACK LOVELOCK'S HEART-BEATS BROADCAST
Jack Lovelock, the Olympic runner, had his heart-beats broad- cast to the country when he took
had set in. 2.15 inches being re-part in a scientific experiment at corded between 4.30 and 5.30 a.m.
King's College Hospital, London, The exact track of the centre
A machine recorded the heart-beats cannot yet be determined with
under normal conditions and then precision. It must have been very after Lovelock had performed close to the south of Wagian light-series of jumps. A doctor explain- house, where the barometer fell to ed to listeners the meaning of the 27.76 inches. The centre
different beats.
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deubtedly passed to the south of Stanley Peninsula, where two ob servers noted that the wind veered through east. It can only have been a very few miles from this point, and it seems most probable that the track ran WNW at a dis- tance of about 5 miles from the south side of the Island.
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In Hong Kong the weather dur- Ing the 1st was somewhat sultry.
THE CALM. CENTRE The sky gradually clouded over: The calm centre, or "eye of the until by 5 p.m. it was completely storm," if it existed at all, must overcast with low clouds. The have been of very, small diameter, barometer began to fall slowly at for no reports of a calm have been 3 p.m., and its fall became more received even from points as near rapid at 9p.m. A NNW wind set the centre as Stanley. It is true In at dusk, and increased gradual- that some observers on the south ---ly-in-force-while remaining-steady side of the Island noticed a dis-
In direction; this indicated that tinct full, lasting for 10 or 20 min- the typhoon was moving directly utes, while the centre was nearest, teowards Hong Kong.
but this may have been due in part Lightning was seen at about 8 to the sheltering effect of the hills p.m.; this observation contradicts as the wind veered through NE. the bellef of the Chinese that The typhoon continued on its thunder and lightning never pre-course, crossing the coast to the cede a typhoon. It is interesting | north of Macao, and probably fill- to note that lightning was also ing up as it moved inland on the seen during the approach of the night of the 2nd to 3rd. typhoon of August 18th-17th, 1936. From information collected by At midnight, when the centre the Part Development Office, it ap- was about 60 miles distant, the pears that in Hong Kong harbour rainfall became heavy and con- during the typhoon, the sea level tinuous; by 2 a.m. on the 2nd the rose to approximately 13 feet above wind had reached gale force and chart datum, or 8 test above the pressure was falling at a pheno-predicted level of high tide which menal rate. It was now clear that i should have occured at 6.50 ain. the typhoon was of great intensity, { The disastrous tidal wave at Talpo and that the centre would soon I and Shatin rose in places to an pass very close to Hong Kong.
a
estimated height of 30 feet above mean sea level. This wave must; have been raised by the wind blow- ing from NE down the long inlet of Tolo Channel. The water.
near
SOME COMPARISION
As
LOW PRESSORE RECORD Several gusts of well over 126 m.p.h. from N and NE were re- corded at the Observatory between 3.20 and 3.50 a.m. This speed is having no escape, swept across the
low-lying ground
Tälpo the highest which the Instrument will record. The anemometer on Market and at the head of Tide
Cove. the roof of the Hong Kong Electric Generating Station registered gust of 164 m.p.h. at 3.30 p.m. The Some comparison with previous latter "Instrument has since been typhoons may be of interest. tested and found to read 3 m.p.h. already mentioned, the minimum low for steady winds; the correct- barometer reading was the lowest ed value of the extreme gust is since observations commenced in therefore 167 m.p.b. The be- 1884, being lower by 0.29 inches haviour of anemometers of this than the previous record. The type in such extreme gusts has highest gusts of wind have certain. never been investigated, "but it is ly never been exceeded since the probable that the true wind speed Installation of the Dines anemome- In the highest yust was within a ter in 1910. In the recent typhoon few miles per hour of the gure the highest hourly mean value of given above.
the wind was.93 m.ph..trom 3.30 The minimum barometer reading to 4.30 alm, as registered by the at the Observatory was. 28.298 Beckley anemometer; this has inches at 3.45 am, the previous | been exceeded on 4 occasions since lowest record being. 28.690 inches 1884, during the typhoons of 1896, on August 18th, 1923. Pres- 1923, 1931 and 1936. The 1937 sures below 28 inches were in- typhoon, though extremely intense, dicated by several barographs, and was comparatively small in dla barometers situated nearer to the meter; the wind of typhoon force. centre than the Observatory. was of short duration, and it may Lower pressures have previously well be that although the hourly been recorded elsewhere near the mean wind has been exceeded, the centres of typhoons or hurricanes,highest gusts were the most violent but very rarely.
ever experienced in the Colony,
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