SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE OF 23RD MAY, 1885. 498 At 10a. on the 22nd the center appears to have been situated in 25° 48' N and 116° 35′ E. ASE gales still blew in the Formosa Straits, where the sea continued very boisterous, and even uthern Formosa, and the weather continued overcast and wet. It rained also here and there the Yangtzekiang, where the barometer had fallen more than a tenth of an inch in the past
Round the Gulf of Pechili the weather was fine with light breezes.
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In SW China and
in the barometer had fallen nearly a tenth, but the sky was partly clear and gentle W breezes blowing.
The typhoon was proceeding northwards with increasing velocity but with rapidly ing energy. In Kiukiang and Wuhu the day continued rainy throughout with an at times NE breeze in the first place. In the latter place no wind above a strong breeze was recorded, gh the center appears to have approached within 60 miles.
10a. on the 23rd the center appears to have been in 33° 22′ N and 118° 14′ E. The barometer A fresh fallen two tenths in Chinkiang, where the weather was clearing after continuous rain.
le had been felt. At 6a. the gale veered towards SW with decreasing violence in the course of lay. In Shanghai the breeze veered during the day from SE through S to W and the barometer Outside of Shanghai a fresh SSE gale veering to S was registered. Gentle SW winds prevailed In Chefoo a the south with detached clouds along the coast, and overcast weather in Formosa.
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E breeze at 9 a. veered through SW and decreased in force during the day, it reached the force breeze and blew from NW the following midnight. Some damage was done to houses. the NE Shantung Promontory it blew a whole gale from SE in the morning of the 23rd. This the cause of the unusually high tide at Taku, which was thought so strange at the time. The veered to SW during the day and blew from NW the following day but with less force. The day inued overcast, gloomy, misty, and wet both in Shantung and in Newchwang, but in Taku ntsin), whence a fresh E wind is reported, it appears to have been fine weather. In Newchwang Gentle ENE breeze at 1p. increased to a fresh NE gale at midnight. This blew with undiminished till about 4a. on the 24th, when it backed to N and subsequently to NW and a calm is reported 4p. same day. The depression appears to have passed off towards ENE, but not having received telegraphic reports from Wladivostock, owing to the destruction of cables caused by the typhoon, im not able to ascertain, whether it can be traced as far as that.
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In Hongkong electric phenomena were observed every day from the 20th to the 23rd, both clusive, but such phenomena are not referred to in the registers received from other stations till the ing of the 23rd, when thunder and lightening were registered in the Formosa Straits, and tuing was seen as far north as Shanghai. On the 24th thunder and lightning were again regis- in the Straits. It appears therefore, that electric phenomena followed but did not precede this phoon in the places visited by strong wind.
Meantime Typhoon X had made its appearance in the Pacific. Rainy and misty weather set in Manila on the 23rd, and continued up to the 25th, on which latter date over 5 inches of rain were ported, but no wind above a moderate breeze was reported, nor does the barometer, judging from 10a. and 4p. reports, appear to have fallen much. At 10a. the 23rd a gentle NW breeze was tered and the wind had backed to SSW the following morning.
At S. Cape the barometer was lowest at 3p. on the 24th. On the morning of the 24th it blew a h NW breeze, which increased to a strong breeze at midnight. It then backed to W and decreased
ree the following day.
At Hongkong cirrus clouds from ENE were observed at 10a. on the 23rd. They backed to SW the following days. The barometer was lowest at 5p. on the 24th. Rain fell on the morning that day.
At N. Saddle Lighthouse, East of Shanghai, there blew a moderate NE gale during the night The ween the 24th and the 25th. The gale backed to NNW and decreased in force next day.
her continued fine.
The S. S. San Pablo at 3p. on the 24th in 27° N and 124° E experienced a NNE gale, a swell from ESE and a heavy sea from NE, and at 3a. on the 25th a whole gale from NNW, a swell from NE, a rising sea from NW as well as heavy showers of rain. Afterwards the gale I towards NW.
Of course it is not possible to project the track of a depression from similar data, but it is possible, the center of Typhoon X at 10a. on the 23rd was in 15° N and 127° E, at 10a on the 24th in Nand 1243° E and at 10a. on the 25th in 284° N and 127° E.
This typhoon would perhaps have passed across the China Sea or have struck the SE coast of ... if it had not been drawn towards "the previous typhoon, then passing northwards over China. perhaps under the influence of that typhoon, that it passed northwards with such an unusual ty, when it was yet to the east of Formosa, and threw itself on southern Japan with a fury, is not commonly exhibited by atmospheric disturbances in that latitude. On the night between th and the 24th it caused a great loss of life and property in Nagasaki and also in Kobe. A 2p. on the 25th Mr. KNIPPING wrote: "The center of a very deep depression lies between Ai and Kagoshima, the former station reporting 28.94 or a fall of 0.67 inches with a NE gale, hima for 1. 29.13 with a S gale) gales extending to Kochi and Shimonosaki with rain, 0.79 at the latter station. In the East the barometer fall is moderate &c.' At 9p. he wrote, stormcenter has moved rapidly NE and appears to be in the central inland sea, Sakai reporting
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