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Results of Weather Forecasts.-The results of comparison of the daily weather forecasts with the weather subsequently experienced are given below, together with the results of the previous five years:-
Year. Complete Success. Partial Success. Partial Failure. Total Failure. 1921 65 30 6.6 1922 67 30 1923 30 71 24 1924 62 34 1925 1926 72 26 1.5 0.5 % % % %The forecast comprises wind direction, wind force, and weather. Complete success means correct in three elements. Partial success means correct in only two elements. Partial failure means correct in only one element. Total failure means correct in no element.
The method of analysis is described in the 1918 Report.
Storm Warnings.-The symbols of the China Seas Storm Signal Code are displayed on Kowloon Signal Hill.
The following Ports are warned by a telegraphic adaptation of the code:-Sharp Peak, Swatow, Amoy, Santuao, Macao, Canton, Wuchow, Phulien, Taihoku, Manila, Labuan, and Singapore. 156 storm warnings were sent in 1926. 110 were received from Manila and 106 from Zikawei. 28 were received from Phulien, via Quang Chau Wan Radio Station. The corresponding numbers in 1925 were 94, 119, 61 and 8 respectively.
At the request of the Director General of Indian Observatories arrangements were made with the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co., in 1925 to send warnings to Simla of any typhoon passing westward over Indo-China. Only one such warning was necessary during the year; namely, on November 8.
The Day Signals of the Local Code are displayed at the following stations:-
Royal Observatory Gough Hill Green Island H.M.S. Tamar Standard Oil Co. Lai Chi Kok. Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Kowloon Harbour Office. Field Officer's Quarters Lyemun.