SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE OF 2nd OCT., 1886: 91
breeze. In Fusan (SE Corea) gloomy and rainy weather had set in on the previous night. The wind rose to a strong breeze at midnight and increased to a whole gale at 10 a. with thick rain At Port Hamilton the wind had also risen about midnight and shifted from SE to heavy gusts. and it blew a whole gale from E in gusts at 10 a. In Kiusiu (Japan) it blew a strong ESE bree The barometer was falling and the weather cloudy and wet. The weather was squally and wet wi
heavy swell for SE.
H. M. S. Daring steaming from Nagasaki towards Port Hamilton encountered in the early morni hours on the 25th a fresh NE gale and a heavy sea from NEastward with squally and wet weathe which lasted the whole day. A cross sea got up at 6 a. The gale veered and increased in force blew a strong E gale at 10 a. moon the sea was heavy and confused and became mountainous at 3 p. About 7 p. the lowest readi of the barometer 28.55 was registered. Immediately before this, it had blown with stormforce from S by S. Then a lull was experienced and afterwards it blew a fresh gale from WSW. During t Jull the sea calmed down too, which is unusual, and the sky cleared. The barometer rose stead and was registered as 29.55 at 8 a. on the 26th.
The barometer had fallen from 29.58 at 2 a. to 29.24 at 10 a. Abo
The barometer fell on H. M. S. Cleopatra, then at anchor in Port Hamilton till 6 p. when it w registered at 28.62.
At that hour it blew a whole gale from ESE. At 8 p. the barometer had ris to 28.79 and it blew a fresh gale from NNW. The wind veered and decreased in force during evening and blew a gentle W breeze at midnight,
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It appears that the centre of the typhoon after passing nearly over H. M.. S. Daring altered which to that epoch had been about NNE, to NË and passed NW of Fusan about midnig on the 25th, at which time the height of the barometer was registered as 29.18. The wind which the afternoon had blown a whole gale from NE with thick rain veered to SW after midnight and the almed down by degrees. The area with strong wind was much greater in Southern Korea than in t atitude of the Philippines extending some 250 miles away from the centre, but the violence of wind was also smaller and did not exceed storm force at any station.
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The typhoon appears then to have turned NNWestward the centre skirting the Coast but bably never leaving the land. At 10 a. on the 26th the centre may have been about 38° 22′ N, İt 2E. It blew now in Yuensan with storm-force from about NE The wind had risen rather sudder efore 9 p. the previous evening to a fresh NE gale with wet weather. After midnight the sea bre and overflowed the settlement. The lowest reading of the barometer 29.44 (uncorrected) gistered at noon on the 26th, the wind blowing then a NNE storm and the sea was very high.
it suddenly fell calm and at 5 p. a light breeze rose from SSW, but the calm continued afterwar th a rising barometer but wet weather. It is evident that the SW gale was kept back by the bi Fountains in Korea, while the NE winds blew with unimpeded strength as long as their cour over the open sea. The typhoon passed northwards after passing close to the E of Yuensan an e centre being then surrounded by rugged land the disturbance soon lost its force.
At 10 a. on the 26th light SW breezes prevailed in Southern China, Formosa and the Philippine he weather was fine in some and overcast and wet in other places. The temperature was high,
midity rather moderate and the barometer rising. Also in the North of China the weather was.
the winds light except at Shantung promontory where it blew a fresh NE breeze. South of Kon blew a fresh SW breeze accompanied with occasional squalls.
About 7 a. on the 27th it blew a fresh SE breeze at Wladivostock. The weather was overc wet and the barometer had fallen to 29.55. The typhoon appears to have been in the latitude
ladivostock the same morning passing about 4° westward of it. Light SW breezes prevailed in Chir
the temperature and humidity were high.
At 10 a. on the 28th the highest reading of the barometer 29.94 was reported from Manila. T ometer was rising generally and gradients rather great for SW winds. The barometer was high thern Japan. At 10 a. on the 29th the barometer had fallen 0.05 inch in Manila but had rise 2 along the Yangtzekiang. The temperature was not unusually high but the humidity was ve
Already on the 27th Typhoon V made itself felt in the Pacific, and at 10 a. on that day its cent ars to have been in 21° N, 139° E. The Barque Nicoya in 20° N, 136° E on the 27th experience lling barometer, W wind with severe squalls, a rising sea and heavy rain. The following day t backed through S to SE. The sea was high and there occurred hard squalls with heavy rai 133° 10.
a. on the 28th the centre appears to have been in 21° N, 137° E on the 29th in 22° N, on the 30th in 22° N, 130° E. It therefore moved westward in the trough between the hig ssures in the North and in the South, and was preceded by an area with fine weather and a slig
in the barometer.
At 10 a. on the 30th the barometer was still rising and the weather was fine in Shanghai but fallen some hundredths of an inch and it rained occasionally in the South. The winds were ve at except in the Gulf of Petchili, in which a storm travelling from NW towards E was felt. Betwe anghai and Nagasaki moderate E or SE breezes were experienced.
At 10 a. on the 31st the centre appears to have been in 24° N, 127° E. The barometer had falle Fly 0.2 inch at Steep Island but was steady along the Yangtzekiang with a slight rise in Hanko
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