Found inside – Page 307Typhoon at Hong - Kong , Wednesday July 21st , 1841 . ... The glass now continued rising ; but blowing a fresh ... Now as the typhoon from its commencement to its termination , lasted about twelve hours , and making allowance for a cbord of a ... Found inside – Page 348CAS members are trained to perform emergency duties during typhoons , floods and landslides ; to search for and rescue people in distress in mountains ; to help evacuate or rescue victims trapped under collapsed buildings or buried in ... Found inside – Page 568Obs . of Hong Kong . 1936 . A BRIEF SURVEY ON ... THE TYPHOON OF JULY 28Th , 1915 ( THE " CHINHAI TYPHOON ... Hong Kong . 1920 . L ' ATMOSPHÈRE EN EXTREME - ORIENT . Paris . FUJIWHARA , S . and YAMAMOTO , N . 1939 . Found inside – Page 679Their work is addressed to seafarers and so retains in its title the expression “ law of storms , ” which has persisted in nautical circles from the days of Redfield and Espy . Hong Kong lies outside the area in which typhoons originate ; hence the ... Found inside – Page 2Hong Kong is subject to typhoons during the summer months and when Typhoon Signal No. 8 is hoisted, indicating that a typhoon with gale force winds is heading directly for Hong Kong, everything comes to a halt. Transport to and from ... Found inside – Page 126More than 2 , 000 lives were lost in Hong Kong and Macau . ... In September 1906 an even more destructive typhoon hit — this one killing 10 , 000 people in just one and a half hours , sinking or ... Work sites are battened down to prevent what is now the main danger of these annual visitations : flying building material and ... Found inside – Page 529Second method ( Wilson ) : It was thought possible that the Bretschneider method might not be appropriate to typhoon conditions at Hong Kong . In particular the assumption that the energy index for any typhoon is constant cannot be fully ... Found inside – Page 118( including the use of satellite data ) ; Theories of tropical cyclone genesis and intensification ; Forecasting typhoon movement ( including ... The invited experts came from Australia , Bangladesh , China , India , Hong Kong , Japan , the United Kingdom and the USA . ... as sea - level data , measured wave data , sea - surface current data , fixed and drifting buoy data and oceanographic satellite data . Found inside – Page 142a number of boats which fail to reach the specially constructed typhoon shelters in time. Sixteen such disasters ... Hong Kong was affected with gales for 7 hours in July when a small typhoon passed inland about 20 miles east of the Colony. Found inside – Page 27Proceedings of a Week-end Symposium of the Royal Asiatic Society, Hong Kong Branch Denis John Dwyer ... Weather Conditions The main climatic factors likely to affect local agriculture are the uneven distribution of rainfall and typhoons . Found inside – Page 212Four tropical cyclones formed in the western Pacific and the South China Sea but only one , Typhoon Viola , came close enough to cause strong winds in Hong Kong . Typhoon Viola formed on July 22 about 340 miles south of Guam . It moved ... Found inside – Page 257Mr McGowan ' s description of the 1937 typhoon is extremely interesting . The 1937 typhoon and Typhoon ' Wanda ' in September 1962 are the two most severe typhoons ever recorded in Hong Kong ; unfortunately the Royal Observatory ' s ... Found insideFrom June to early September, it is not uncommon for Hong Kong to experience tropical storms or typhoons (the name derives from dai fung – big wind). Found inside – Page 9It moved steadily west and intensified to a tropical storm on August 10th and a typhoon on August 11th . It then turned northwest and crossed Central Luzon on August 14th . In Hong Kong , No . 1 Local Storm Signal was hoisted at 6 . 45 a . m ... Found inside – Page 237Places 30 Hong Kong : typhoon warning , I May 1999 Figure 9.53 Passage of ... Number 8 signal may be raised today as Typhoon Leo moves closer to Hong Kong . Found inside – Page 20Hong Kong generally has two unpredictable climatic seasons : hot / wet and cool / dry . The hot / wet season occurs between ... Tropical cyclones and typhoons often occur between May and September . The cool / dry season is between ... Found inside – Page 37TO , TAIKOO DOCK , HONG KONG . All well and safe now thanks to Captain " Adventure ' . As I have no fresh water , on arrival anchorage " Adventure " supplying water , also little coal . “ Adventure ” also bringing back supernumaries . Found inside – Page 11In the past , when Hong Kong was not as developed as it is today , major typhoons resulted in many casualties . Today improved structure design and ... Found inside – Page 6788-065180 Current structure in the area of the cyclonic eddy in the northern East China Sea . Donghal belbu qixuanxing ... ( Ch ; en ] by BaorenZhao ( Inst . Oceanol . , Hong Kong during Typhoon Iris in 1976. 1. Typhoon windfield and Acad . Found inside – Page 259A Visitor's Guide to Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories Steven ... The word typhoon derives from the Cantonese taifung, which translates as ... Found inside – Page 369TYPHOONS. TYPHOONS. * Detailed in text China (1926) Canton (1862) Fukien (Fujian) (Typhoon Iris) (1959) Haifung (1881) * Hong Kong (1841) * Hong Kong (1906) ... Found inside – Page 2Hong Kong is subject to typhoons during the summer months and when Typhoon Signal No . 8 is hoisted , indicating that a typhoon with gale force winds is heading directly for Hong Kong , everything comes to a halt . Transport to and from ... Found inside – Page 14Dear Class , I just left Hong Kong . Hong Kong is part of China . One of the things I almost always ate was rice . They speak Chinese and a lot of English , too . There was going to be a typhoon so when we went to the beach the waves were ... Found inside – Page 96Fukien Province, 900 dead) and 1936 (August 16, Hong Kong, 100 dead). On October 7, 1947, a gargantuan late-season typhoon ashore at Hong Kong. Found insideTyphoon Dot ( 5-12 June ) caused one landslide on Hong Kong Island and losses to public works facilities of $ HK 168,000 . Severe tropical cyclone Faye ( 7-11 July ) passed without any reports of casualties or damage in Hong Kong . Found inside – Page 113Air temp . now 78o . ... This observation was forwarded to the Director of the Royal Observatory , Hong Kong ... At this stage , the typhoon posed a definite threat to Hong Kong and although reconnaissance aircraft continued to provide eye fix ... Found inside – Page 1Gray Williams has put in a sterling effort as ' our man in the DEB ' , but now retires , exhausted , as a Porcupine ! editor . He will be ... 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[ Text ] Haikou , July 15 ( XINHUA ) A provincial official from south China's Hainan Province said today that Typhoon ... Found inside – Page 212During the five typhoon months , June to October , about ten typhoons strike the China coast annually , but , of course , only a very small ... The Hong Kong typhoon of 1937 will go down to history as an example of Nature in her most terrifying and ruthless mood , in sharp contrast ... These are incubated 212 Current Literature. Found inside – Page 603Originally founded as a village over two thousand years ago during the Qin Dynasty ( 220-207 B.C.E. ) , Canton was located upstream from the Portugese island enclave of Macao and the British - held island of Hong Kong . While Macao had ... Found inside – Page 306HONG KONG'S LAST SEVERE TYPHOON OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY : TYPHOON YORK By RICHARD MUIRHEAD 112 High Street , Macclesfield , SKII 7QQ , U.K. Abstract . This paper examines the history of Typhoon York in mid ... 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