Appendix F.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR
OF THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY, HONG KONG,
FOR THE YEAR 1932.
I. GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS.
Early in the year it was decided to build separate quarters for the Director, and to utilise the present quarters as additional office and library accommodation. Plans are in preparation and the work will probably be completed during the coming year.
II. METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.
2. As in former years, automatic records of the temperature of the air and evaporation were obtained with a Richard dry and wet bulb thermograph, and the direction and velocity of the wind with Beckley and Dines-Baxendell anemographs. Rainfall is recorded by a Nakamura Pluviograph, sunshine by two Campbell-Stokes universal recorders, and barometric pressure by a Marvin barograph. Eye observations of barometric pressure, temperature and cloud are made hourly, and the direction of cloud motion every three hours. Observations of pilot balloons are made with a Watts 11 inch prismatic theodolite at 9h. a.m. and 3h. p.m. when conditions are favourable.
3. The principal features of the weather in 1932 were:
(a) A drought lasting from the beginning of the year until 3rd February.
(b) The absence of typhoons seriously affecting the Colony.
No measurable amount of rain fell between 28th December, 1931, and 3rd February, 1932, inclusive. The rainfall in October and November was also below normal. In spite of these dry periods, the total rainfall for the whole year was slightly above normal, owing to heavy rainfall in June and July.
4. The tracks of 21 typhoons which occurred in the Far East during the year 1932 are given in the Monthly Meteorological Bulletin for December. The only typhoons producing winds of gale force in Hong Kong were those of 21st July and 17th September. The first, passing about 150 miles to the south of Gap Rock, produced a gust velocity at the Observatory of 67 m.p.h. from E. at 21h. 19m. on 21st July. The second, passing on an almost identical track, produced a gust velocity at the Observatory of 79 m.p.h. from E.N.E. at 8h. 00m. on 17th September.
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Appendix F.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR
OF THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY, HONG KONG,
FOR THE YEAR 1932.
I. GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS.
Early in the year it was decided to build separate quarters for the Director, and to utilise the present quarters as additional office and library accommodation. Plans are in preparation and the work will probably be completed during the coming year.
II.-METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.
2. As in former years, automatic records of the temperature of the air and evaporation were obtained with a Richard dry and wet bulb thermograph, and the direction and velocity of the wind with Beckley and Dines-Baxendell anemographs. Rainfall is recorded by a Nakamura Pluviograph, sunshine by two Campbell- Stokes universal recorders, and barometric pressure by a Marvin barograph. Eye observations of barometric pressure, tempera- ture and cloud are made hourly, and the direction of cloud motion every three hours. Observations of pilot balloons are made with a Watts 11 inch prismatic theodolite at 9h. a.m. and 3h. p.m. when conditions are favourable.
3. The principal features of the weather in 1932 were:
(a) A drought lasting from the beginning of the year until 3rd February.
(b) The absence of typhoons seriously affecting the Colony.
No measurable amount of rain fell between 28th December, 1931, and 3rd February, 1932, inclusive. The rainfall in October and November was also below normal. In spite of these dry periods, the total rainfall for the whole year was slightly above normal, owing to heavy rainfall in June and July.
4. The tracks of 21 typhoons which occurred in the Far East during the year 1932 are given in the Monthly Meteorological Bulletin for December. The only typhoons producing winds of gale force in Hong Kong were those of 21st July and 17th Sep- tember. The first, passing about 150 miles to the south of Gap Rock, produced a gust velocity at the Observatory of 67 m.p.h. from E. at 21h. 19m. on 21st July. The second, passing on an almost identical track, produced a gust velocity at the Observatory of 79 m.p.h. from E.N.E. at 8h. 00m. on 17th September.
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