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ContentsForeword 7Introduction 9Chapter 1 By Far the Best Spot 17Chapter 2 Away Fly the Houses 41Chapter 3 Of Comets and Kings 54Chapter 4 Unhappy Christmas 67Chapter 5 <strong>The</strong> Clacking <strong>of</strong> the Hammers 87Chapter 6 From Time Ball to Atomic Clock 101Appendix 130Bibliography 133Index 135
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Page 5: The Royal Observatory, Hong KongJIM
Page 9: ForewordIhe early section of this b
Page 12 and 13: logical water cycle had been descri
Page 14 and 15: China to Peking. Cameron records th
Page 16 and 17: The first steps towards scientific
Page 18: The meteorologist is impotent if al
Page 21 and 22: The Emperor K'ang-hsi visiting the
Page 23 and 24: efore dawn, a fine drizzle drifted
Page 25 and 26: shipping and general interests of t
Page 27 and 28: made by default - with the correspo
Page 29 and 30: One of the immediate problems for D
Page 31 and 32: But after all [my endeavours] I hav
Page 33 and 34: This was followed by another warnin
Page 35 and 36: probability of its approach, that o
Page 37: Public Press animadverting on anoth
Page 40 and 41: The first indication of this emerge
Page 42 and 43: Having settled the staffing questio
Page 44 and 45: On 19 September, the Telegraph repo
Page 49 and 50: Chapter 2CHOUSS... the water-fowl f
Page 51 and 52: Meanwhile there was the boredom and
Page 53 and 54: upon the sea-beach without any appa
Page 55 and 56: came a storm which Endacott describ
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uilt and well-drained town, its unw
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The colony, but a few hours before
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Gardens. Ferns and orchids suffered
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ederick George Figg's tenure as Dir
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eaches within about 200 miles of Ho
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went up. From then on, no informati
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means of exploration of the upper a
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The Post reported that a privately-
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sultry at the time when the typhoon
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The time ball near the Marine Polic
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Chapter 4O-UUS7MASI heard 'crumping
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A summary of the weather in 1942, 1
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Macau Victory celebrations were joy
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the Colony without assistance from
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also brought problems with communic
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An investigation of the meteorologi
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average. June brought nearly 205 mm
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Earlier the same day, small landsli
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the five months to 31 March, only 2
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Agnes crossed the South China coast
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-SrfmiTyphoon Wanda's 140-knot hamm
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Jumble of smashed cars at the foot
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ong Kong's climate is sub-tropical,
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Official estimates put typhoon dama
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daily life. It is, however, necessa
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applied by the natives, like our wo
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een too frequently chronicled in th
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strongly in that direction and the
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Inset below: Among the thousands of
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and although the tale of destructio
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Chapter 6FROMTIME.JOJJOMTCCOOCThe s
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comparison with radio-telegraphy an
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It was recommended that Celsius be
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development, although the origins o
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Forecasters at the Airport Meteorol
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In 1980 the Observatory began to pr
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annual summaries of weather observa
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Maximum sustained winds can also be
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To measure complete ground movement
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that the instruments were 'practica
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Routine surface observations began
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A weather radar is mainly used to m
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The Observatory's computer division
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• Airborne dust collected at King
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t confuse the Tropical Cyclone Sign
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SAYER, G. R., Hong Kong 1841-1862.
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official tebukefor, 31complaints ab
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Tidal \\avesm Tolo Harbour,, 63Tsun
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