Shanghai 24 hours ending 7 p.m.
Yesterday Min. 640 Max. 88.5 Same date, 1938 Min. 730 Max. 86.5
Rainfall nil.
Temperature at Siccawei:—Yesterday Min. 635 Max. 885 re date, 1938 Min. 18 Max, 847
Siccawei's Report State on the morning of the 5th:—Pressure normal and steady over Japan: rather low and falling over China. Typhoon to the south-east of Manila inclining northward. Fine and hot weather with south-easterly to south-westerly winds in China.
State en the morning of the 6th: Fine and hot weather, South-easterly breezes.
Pressure rather low and steady.
Probabilities, 4.30 p.m. yesterday:—Fine cloudy and hot weather with south-easterly to southwesterly winds around Shantung. Cloudy, hot, thundery in places with variable winds over our regions and the Eastern Sea. Cyclonic rough weather around Southern Formosa, owing to the typhoon by north-east Luzon moving north or north-northwestward. Typhoon signal: Approtimate position of the centre at 6 am, within 60 miles, latitude 17, longitude 123, direction north-northwest, intensity: unknown.—Siccawei Observatory.
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