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SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE OF 23RD MAY, 1885. 489

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 219.

The following report from the Government Astronomer, for the month of August, 1884, is published

teral information.

By Command,

W. H. MARSH,

Colonial Secretary.

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Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd May, 1885.

HONGKONG OBSERVATORY.

Weather Report for August, 1884.

In the China Coast Meteorological Register, based on information transmitted by the Great Northern Eastern Extension Telegraph Companies-which I have published daily, is given a summary atmospheric circumstances in Manila and along the Coast of China between Haiphong and hai. It also contains information concerning the weather in Nagasaki and Wladivostock.

The barometer reached its highest reading after the passage of Typhoon V. in Manila on the 30th and in Hongkong on the 1st August. On the latter day a light N breeze, backing next day to A blow over Luzon. The sky was overcast and rain fell. Southeast of Luzon the weather was bad there was not much wind. Upper clouds from ENE were observed in Hongkong on the 2nd. backed to NNE on the 3rd. At 10 a. on the 2nd I issued the following notice :-There appears another Typhoon far off in the East.' The center of Typhoon VI appears to have been at that -ituated in 15° N, 127° E and to have been moving from SE to NW, but for want of observations sition cannot be properly determined. The barometer fell to 29.60 at 4 p. on the 3rd in Manila, lowest reading reported from that station. A moderate SW breeze was blowing at the time he wet weather continued. At 10 a. on the 5th the center appears to have been moving straight wards. Its position may have been about 22° N and 125° E. The S. S. Thibet on the morning at day experienced a head swell and at noon in 28° 5′ N and 125° 49′ E a moderate N gale, increased to a fresh NE gale with hard squalls and a high sea during the following night. The meter had fallen 0.2 inches since noon on the previous day and appearances to eastward were arning. At 10 a. on the 6th the center was perhaps in about 241° N and 125° E. I notified the Typhoon appeared to have taken a northerly course.' The lowest reading of the ter in Hongkong was not reached till that day, but it is not impossible that the depression was deeper as it proceeded. At the same time the temperature reached its maximum here and cane up from WNW. Fine weather and light winds continued without interruption over and in the China Sea. No rain fell in Hongkong till the 8th. But on the 6th and the 7th - NW breezes were felt over Formosa and on the latter day a moderate NNE gale with high sea avy swell was felt in the northern entrance to the Formosa Straits. At the same time a strong reeze is reported from Tamsui with overcast weather and passing showers. At Takow a strong breeze on the 6th increased to a NNW gale on the 8th. But this was not felt at neighbouring On the whole the distribution of fresh winds during this Typhoon seems to have been very The fall in the barometer did not much exceed 0.1 inches at any of these stations. At 10 7th the center of the Typhoon may have been in 26° N and 126° E. I gave notice :-' that on appeared to have recurved and returned to the Pacific in about the latitude of Northern On the 8th, light SW breezes were felt over the China Sea and along the coast. At 10 a. the was in about 28° N and 127° E. On the 9th the barometer was falling slightly in Shanghai lerate NE breeze was felt in the afternoon. At 10 a. on the 10th the center appears to have 30° 25′ N and 128°42′ E. The barometer was falling over SW Japan and stormwarnings ed from the Observatory in Tokio. At 2 p. Mr. KNIPPING wrote: A depression is off S.

At 3 p. an E gale blew in Kagoshima, where the barometer fell to 29.20 at 9 p.

That the weather was rainy in SW Japan but fine at all castern stations. The 11th at 6 a. the

ad fallen to 29.13 in Nagasaki, where a N gale was blowing. South of Hiogo the S. S. · squally weather. In Nagasaki at 2 p. 3.74 inches of rain had fallen and the temperature en degrees. At 9 p. the center appears to have been in 32° 45′ N and 132° 12′ E. evening the S. S. Volga in about 33° N and 1343° E encountered a whole gale from SE, red to SW next morning. The rain was not heavy but the sea was higher than was to be from the force of the wind. At 6 a. on the 12th the center was in 33° N and 132° 55′ E, ading was 29.21 inches. The wind was nowhere strong although in Osaka it blew a gale Est. The center was moving slowly eastward. At 2 p. it was in 33° 20′ N and 134° 0′ E in 34° 0′ N and 135° 50′ E. The depression was beginning to fill up but the wind had heavy NE gale in Osaka. At 6 a. on the 13th it was in 34° 10′ N and 137° 30′ E and nds were felt in southern Nippon. At 2 p. it was in 31° N and 139° E and the weather haring in the west but rainy in the east. In the evening of the 13th the depression passed

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