Report of the Chief Signal Officer, United States Army, to the Secretary of WarU.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 |
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anemometer April Barracks Bismarck bureau Cairo Chattanooga Chief Signal Officer cloudiness in tenths cold wave coöperation Cotton region County crop bulletin December display division Dodge City double area El Paso ETC.-Continued fall of temperature February feet forecasts Fort Assinniboine Fort Buford Fort Smith Fort Sully Huron inches instruments Iowa isobars isotherms January July June 30 Lieut lines Loss maps March Maximum miles Memphis Minimum Minn Month MONTHLY AND ANNUAL MONTHLY AND YEARLY North northeast northwest November Number of days Ohio Orleans Paso Portland Prescott pressure Prevailing direc Prof rainfall records River Salt Lake City San Francisco Savannah Second order Sept Shreveport Signal Corps Signal Service South southwest Springs square miles stations storms telegraph TEMPERATURES FOR 1889 Tenn Third order tion tornadoes velocity voluntary observers West wind YEARLY METEOROLOGICAL SUMMARIES-Continued
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Seite 258 - Results of Meteorological Observations made under the direction of the United States Patent Office and the Smithsonian Institution, from the year 1854 to 1859, inclusive, being a Report of the Commissioner of Patents made at the first session of the 36th Congress.
Seite 246 - The average percentage of local verifications of weather and temperature signals as reported by displaymen was: weather, 84 per cent.
Seite 17 - France, has been regularly and faithfully carried out. Each night a cablegram is sent to Professor Mascart, at Paris, summarizing the synchronous meteorological observations, gales, derelicts, and dangerous ice of the western Atlantic for the previous five days, together with the current weather conditions of the United States. This information is highly appreciated by the Central Meteorological Office of France, which utilizes it for making its own forecasts, and is also valued by all shipmasters,...
Seite 42 - Treasury, at the time the mortgage was offered for insurance, but not to exceed 3 per centum per annum, payable semiannually on the 1st day of January and the 1st day of July...
Seite 621 - ... advantageously made, while a small part of the basement of the same building set apart for the printing office and presses, whence the daily weather maps are issued, would complete a most desirable domicile for that Bureau. Such a transfer having been made from its present location, the Weather Bureau buildings and grounds at the corner of Twentyfourth and M streets, in the city of Washington, could be converted into cash and would bring something like $200,000 or $300,000. This sum, added to...
Seite 219 - I desire in this report to express my appreciation to the paymasters' clerks for the faithful and efficient manner in which they have performed their duties during the past fiscal year. SOLDIERS
Seite 238 - Director shall supervise the same; he shall receive reports therefrom and reduce the same to tabular form, and report the same monthly for publication as the New Jersey Weather Report, and shall annually make a report to the Governor, which shall contain a detailed statement of all expenditures made during the year and a summary of the observations taken at the various Stations.
Seite 225 - Service of the United States, for the purpose of collecting crop statistics and meteorological data, and more widely disseminating the weather forecasts and storm and frost warnings for the benefit of producers and shippers of perishable products, and to promote a general knowledge of meteorological science and the climatology of the State.
Seite 203 - Information Signal" consists of a red pennant of the same dimensions as the red and the white pennants (direction signals) and when displayed indicates that the local observer has received information from the central office of a storm covering a limited area, dangerous only for vessels about to sail to certain points. The signal...
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