25
S.S. YIKSANG.
413
June 10 noon midt.
left Manila for Hongkong
29.75
SW 5 0
high following sea.
11 4a.
8a.
.70
SSW 6
.75
SSW 5 0
noon
17o
6' 1189
17'
.77 SSW 5
frequent squalls of heavy rain, thunder and lightning.
similar weather.
4p.
.73 SW 5
heavy N swell.
.80 WNW 5
.85 WNW 3;b
**
"
8p.
midt.
12 4a.
.81 NW 2
8.
.85 var.
2 b
"
noon 19° 52' 116°
15'
.85
W
2
"
S.S. ZAFIRO.
SW
4 or
June 9 noon (16°
0'
119°
4p.
0') ?29.61 .52
8p.
midt.
10 4a.
8a.
.52 NW/N 6
SW 5 or
.50 WNW 4
.50 NNW 5 q .45 N 6 orq
slight N swell.
high confused sea. high sea.
""
noon
19° 17'
117°
2'
.56 NNW 6
37
4p.
.56 NNW 5
8p.
11 4a.
.66 NNW 3
,62 N 5 op
heavy sea.
59
13
8a.
.66 N
5
כל
noon
20°
53'
116°
20'
.68
N
4 .c high sea.
S.S. PAUTING.
June 10 noon
22° 55'
116°
31'
29.65 ENE 5 head sea.
midt.
.67 ENE 6'oq
11 noon 23° 58' 1170 51'
midt.
12 4a.
8a.
Doon
Ponghou harbour (Pesca-
dores).
.65 NE/E 5 0
.55 NNE 6 .46 NNW 8 .67 NW/N
.69 SSW 3 o
hazy, heavy sea, ship rolling heavily.
wind increasing; heavy S sea; turned back for shelter.
After the 12th of June SW winds light to moderate in force prevailed in Southern China, but the barometer was falling again on the 13th and 14th. There was, however, on the 15th a rise at the stations north of the S entrance to the Formosa Channel, but moderate S and SW breezes blew over the entire coast between Pakhoi and Foochow until the evening. At Hongkong the barometer was steady and there was a fresh SW breeze during the day. Later the wind fell light and the direction became SE for a few hours. At this time heavy rain with thunder and lightning commenced, the clouds coming from SW. Winds in the N part of the Formosa Channel had become NE 4.
On the 16th heavy rains with thunderstorms spread over the entire SE coast lasting until the 20th. There appears to have been a trough of slightly low pressure moving up from the southward, to the N of which, the wind was NE and E and in the rear SW on an average. After the passage northwards of this area of slightly diminished pressure SW winds became general over the greater part of the coast and the rains ceased.
The greatest fall for the periods stated in the table given below was received at Hongkong (23.7 inches). Pakhoi, which has rather high land to the eastward, had somewhat less. Hoihow, on the N coast of Hainan, was the exception to the general rainfall though the weather was very squally with threatening rainy appearance. The mountainous district to the southward may account for this. The fall diminished greatly in amount at the stations on the SE coast in the Formosa Channel and in Formosa, -with the exception of Fisher Island (21.6 inches) an exposed situation near the S entrance to the Channel-and appears to have ceased entirely a little to the northward of Foochow. S. Cape received a very small amount as compared with other districts:-
Period.
Pakhoi, Hoihow,
Period.
ins. ...June 16-19, inclusive 17.6
ins.
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Hongkong,
"
Canton,
29
Breaker Point,
Swatow,
Lamocks,..
"
South Cape,
""
15-19, 15-19, 15-19, 16-21, 16-21, 16-21, 15-20,
nil.
>>
"
23.7
"J
""
Fisher Island,.........June 16-20, inclusive 21.6 Chapel Island,
16-21,
7.3 Amoy,
3.9
>>
16-21,
"
7.4
Ockseu,
16-21,
7.2
""
""
"}
16.4
Turnabout,
"
16-20,
6.9
""
23
9.8
Middle Dog,
16-20,
8.7
"
19
6.8
Foochow,
16-20,
5.4
""
"
17
1.2
Takow,
Anping,
"
15-20, 15-20,
"
"
10.0
Tamsui, Keelung,
29
16-20,
7.0
»
"
16-20,
12.2
"
9.3
""
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