Report of the Chief Signal Officer, United States Army, to the Secretary of WarU.S. Government Printing Office, 1885 |
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01 inch 11 p. m. Monthly April Ariz barometer above sea-level Barometer readings corrected barometric observations Cape Henry Cedar Keys Chief Signal Officer City Cloudiness in tenths corrected for temperature Correction for instrumental dangerous rise Date December 31 Elevation of barometer Elevation of exposed Elevation of rain error of barometer exposed thermometer February feet following constants gauge above ground Grand Haven instrumental error Iowa January June 30 Location of office Mackinaw City March Maximum above 90 Maximum below 32 Mean minimum Meteorological summary Miles mometers North Carolina November Number of calms Number of days observed blowing October office on December Ohio Orleans p. m. Mean p. m. Monthly mean Percentages Pittsburg Prevailing direction reduced to sea-level Relative humidity sea-level by adding Self-registering ther Shreveport Signal Corps Signal Service temperature and instrumental Tenn thermometer above ground Thunder-storms Total movement United States Army various months Wind
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Página 571 - FRS, secretary. Canada, by Charles Carpmael, AM, FRAS, director of the Magnetic Observatory at Toronto, and superintendent of the Meteorological Office of the Dominion of Canada. Cape Colony, by the Meteorological Commission of Cape Colony at Cape Town. Chili, by authority of the secretary of public instruction, through Francisco Vidal Gormaz, president of the Central Meteorological Office at Santiago.
Página 545 - ... the cautionary signal is displayed, or in that vicinity. 2. That the danger appears to be so great as to demand precaution on the part of navigators and others interested — such as an examination of vessels or other structures to be endangered by a storm — the inspection of crews, rigging, etc., and general preparation for rough weather.
Página 5 - ... enlistments made during that time, eighty-six were college graduates. These young men are first placed under instruction and fitted for station service, and those showing capacity for special work are selected and instructed, with a view of qualifying them for the scientific work of the service. INDICATIONS. The weather forecasts, based upon tri-daily telegraphic reports, have been regularly issued during the year and, as an evidence of their practical value, they now form an important item of...
Página 50 - Ins. 6, 21, 24, and 31, 1883.) 134. The frost warnings for the sugar-growing regions of Louisiana will be telegraphed to the Signal Service observer at New Orleans, who will promptly furnish a copy to the secretary of the Louisiana State weather service. The officer in charge of indications will exercise great care in preparing these warnings and make them descriptive of the conditions expected to occur in the northern and southern parts of the Stute ; he will also give the time at which the cold-wave...
Página 609 - ... property report which is rendered quarterly to the Chief Signal Officer for transmission to the Third Auditor of the Treasury, so that not one article, from the merest trifle to the most expensive instrument that is bought, but what is carefully reported every three months to the accounting officers of the Treasury; and when it is considered that the property is scattered over the United States at all the stations of this service, and that frequent inventories have demonstrated the absolute accuracy...
Página 8 - ... deductions are eagerly sought for and published by the daily journals. There is scarcely a branch of industry that may not be affected by the weather conditions, and this office is called upon almost daily to furnish special predictions in the interests of special trades, commerce, and agriculture. This important division of the office requires special study and experience to insure the best results, and the assistants who are required to make these deductions should devote their whole time to...
Página 50 - FBO8T8. 131. Officers will carefully study the meteorological conditions preceding damaging frosts. Such as threaten any crop or fruit will be announced in indications or by special telegraphic bulletins as early as consistent with reasonable safety, and, if possible, two or three days in advance. These frost warnings will define the regions threatened, state the time, and distinguish between froete and freezing weather.
Página 50 - Toronto between 3 pm and 11 pm on the 10th ; Kingston between 11 pm on the 10th, and 7 am on the llth ; Montreal and Quebec between 7 am and 3 pm on the llth. 128. When danger is past or no longer threatens any Canadian station that has been warned, a dispatch will be sent to Professor Carpmael, containing the following words : (1) Safety ; (2) name of station or stations ; (3) date and time (cipher word). A "good-night" message will also be sent to Professor Carpmael at midnight.
Página 31 - ... service, but an example of my want of power to enforce discipline is shown to those who remain. The want of such a corps is felt every day, and it is hoped that Congress will no longer withhold its benefits, leaving it alone, of all services in the Army, weakened and embarrassed by the want of organization. This is one of the ways in which...
Página 534 - ... telegraphic transmission. These instructions cover the entire field of special river observations. They went into effect on the Tennessee River system December 1, 1884, and at all other special river stations January 1, 1885. On January 1, 1885, the measurement of the depth of water was changed from feet and inches to feet and tenths of a foot, and all measurements have since been so read, recorded, and published. Regular river observations are made at 2 pm, seventy-fifth meridian time, daily;...