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PHILIPPINE WEATHER BUREAU (1908).—The part of the annual report now received includes (1) the administrative report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, and (2) hourly meteorological observations made at the Manila Central Observatory during the calendar year 1908. The activity and popularity of the department dealing with storm warnings may be gauged from the fact that during a typhoon 160 telephonic inquiries were received in a single day. Telegraphic observations were received twice daily from twenty-nine foreign stations, and include reports from Japan, China coast, Formosa, and Indo-China. Special attention is directed to the “immense service” to shipping and other interests which the Eastern Extension and Great Northern Telegraph Companies have for years rendered in allowing free transmission of meteorological messages. The mean temperature of the year 1908 was 79.2° (rather below the normal); the maximum, 97.2°, occurred in May, and the minimum, 61.7°, in February. The rainfall was 97.7 inches (about 21J inches above the I normal); none fell in April (the average being 1-2 inches). Among the large number of seismic disturbances reported from different localities in the fiscal year only one violent shock occurred, viz. on November 24, 1907, in south-east Luzon.
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Meteorological Reports . Nature 87, 95–96 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087095b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/087095b0