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On the 2nd September the barometer was still falling a little at all the stations on the S and SE coasts. At Haiphong and Pakhoi light W to N breezes prevailed with cloudy weather and rain at Pakhoi towards evening. At Hoihow there was a moderate SW breeze with showery weather. At Hongkong light E airs and breezes with very wet weather and distant thunder. At Canton a light E breeze veering and increasing to SE 5 at 3 p. decreasing and backing again during the evening. The weather was wet and gloomy. Strong S and SW breezes with high sea and wet squally weather prevailed in the China Sea to the SE of Hainan. The depression appears to have been almost stationary and the centre was perhaps at noon on September 2nd in about 21°, 111°.
Observations for September 2nd at noon :---
Haiphong,
COAST STATIONS.
.29.61 — .03
WNW
1
C.
Pakhoi,
.64 .02
NNW
1
C.
Hoihow,
.67 .03
SW/S
4
op.
Hongkong,
.69 + .01
ENE
ot.
Canton,
.65
.02
ESE
3
or,
Breaker Pt............. Lamocks,.....
.69 .01
calm.
omd.
.70
.03
SW
C.
VESSELS.
S.S. Catherine Apear, ..............17°
9'
113° 42'
29.69
SSW
orq.
high sea.
"}
Taichiow, Surat,
.17 56
111 21.
69
S
5
rqt.
.18 41
114 11.
71
S/W
5
orq.
high sea.
}}
27
Avochie,
.20 33
111 18.
63
SW
0.
On the 3rd September the barometer at Pakhoi was rising slightly with a gentle N backing breeze and wet weather at 4 p. WNW 4, at 8 p. W 4 (barometer 29,57). At Hoihow the barometer was on the point of rising and there was a moderate SW gale during the day, decreasing in the evening. Weather was showery in the morning and became fine at night. The barometer was rising slightly at Hongkong and the wind was E 1 to 2 in the morning, SSE 1 in the afternoon with rain in the early morning, cloudy during the remainder of the day. The barometer had risen and light SSE breezes prevailed with cloudy sky. Fresh SW breezes prevailed in the China Sea. The centre was perhaps in 2110, 110. In this slight depression except on the 3rd September the cyclonic circulation of winds was at no time well marked. At first (29th and 30th) there appears to have been a band of slightly deficient pressure in about 17° to 19° lat. and perhaps 110° to 120° long. lying WSW to ENE and most marked in the W side where there appears to have been a slight nucleus and where it appears to have been more squally than elsewhere. On the northern side of this area NE to E moderate breezes were blowing and on the S side SW fresh breezes. On both sides of the
area which
appears to have been moving NNW the weather was squally. The SW winds reached the coast of S Formosa on the afternoon of the 31st but E winds still blew on the SE coast. The barometer fell quickly over the entire coast on the 1st September and the S winds had advanced to the SE coast and Hainan but pressure though low was very uniform over a large area. On the 2nd the fall in the barometer had almost ceased but there was some indication of the isobars being closed. On the 3rd September there was a distinct cyclonic circulation of wind and the centre of disturbance appears to have passed E of Pakhoi moving NNW ward. The Activ was lying in that port and her Captain noted the appearances as pointing to a typhoon in the neighbourhood. Probably had the area remained longer at sea it would have developed and given birth to a typhoon as the conditions had now become favourable. The lowest recorded reading of the barometer in the neighbourhood of the central area was about 29.6 and the highest force of wind a moderate gale.
The following are the observations for 3rd September at noon:-
Haiphong,
COAST STATIONS.
...........................................................29.64 + .03
Pakhoi,
Hoihow,
,61 .03
.66 - .01
WNW 2
N
C.
SW
7
Hongkong,
.72 + .03
E
2
C.
Canton,
.69 + .04
SE
2
C.
Breaker Pt.................... Lamocks,
.73 + .04
SE
.76 + .06
SSW
1
cm.
C.
VESSELS.
S.S. Surat,
:....
.14° 52′
113° 8'
29.79
SW/S
6
>>
Catherine Apcar, .........14 10
>>
Picciola,
19 46
Chusan,
112 4
115 at Hoihow.
.75
SW/S
7
rough sea. do.
.73
SW
5
.64
WSW
6
13
Esmeralda,
.19
4 116. 54
.73
SSW
0.
22
Phra Chula Chon Klao, 22 10
114 2
.69
SE
swell.
fine, swell.
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