The Archive · 1939

THE WEATHER Temperature near Holy Trinity Cathedral

Shanghai 24 hours ending 7 p.m.

Yesterday Min. 400 Same date, 1938 Min. 49.5

Rainfall nil.

Temperature at Siccawel:—Yesterday Min. 385 Max. Same date, 1938 Min. 493 Max. 603

Siccawei's Report State on the morning of the 15th—Anticyclone over China and Japan, decreasing and moving eastward. Typhoon developing to the east of Mindanao, Fine weather, locally overcast, with light variable winds in China and over the Yellow Sea; with moderate north-easterly monsoon over the Eastern Sea and Formosa.

State on the morning of the 16th:—Light anti-eyeline over Central China, Korea and Japan. Depression over Mongolia. Low area near Mindanao.

Probabilities. 430 p.m. yesterday:—Fine to cloudy weather and variable breezes in China. Overcast to cloudy with moderate winds variable over the Yellow Sea: Northerly to easterly over the Eastern Sea and Formosa.—Siccawei Observatory.

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