The Japanese Authorities have not yet found it possible to adopt the Hong Kong 6-letter Code in their daily weather telegrams. We are still being deprived, therefore, of temperature and weather data from the Japanese réseau.
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 1922 67 % % % 1923 1924 30 66 30 71 1925 24 62 34 72 1926 26 70 26 1927 en en un +24 3 3 5 4The 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 and on the roof of No. 49 Godown of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co.
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. 136 storm warnings were sent in 1927. 154 were received from Manila, and 188 from Zikawei. The corresponding numbers in 1926 were 156, 110 and 106 respectively.
At the request of the Director 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 three such warnings were necessary during the year; namely, on July 27, September 20 and October 7. The warnings are now sent to Calcutta to which station the service has been transferred.