The practical use of meteorological reports and weather-maps / Office of the chief signal officer, Division of telegrams and reports for the benefit of commerce.

  • United States Army Signal Corps
Date:
1871
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Credit: The practical use of meteorological reports and weather-maps / Office of the chief signal officer, Division of telegrams and reports for the benefit of commerce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    AVind; Velocity of Wind, in miles per hour; Pressure of Wind, in pounds per square foot: Force of Wind; Amount of Cloud ; Rainfall since last report, in inches and hundredths, and State of Weather. The following places, now occupied as Stations of this Divi- sion, were selected as of most immediate importance for mete- orological purposes, and possessing telegraphic facilities. Those which are gradually to be added during this year are already designated by the Secretary of War, for similar reasons, with a design to perfect the net-work of the system so far as the appropriations allow: ■ Portland, Me, 'Boston, Mass. ■New London, Corrn, '■^ Ne-w York City, N. Y, ■ Pliiladelpliia, Pa. '' Baltimore, Md. ■^ Washington, D. C. ''Wilmington, N.C, '•Cb;u-leston, S. C, '' Savannah, Ga. Augusta, Ga. Lake City, Pla, Key W^est, Pla. * Mobile, Ala. ^ Jfew Orleans, La. San Francisco, Gal. ■Js'orfolk, Va, Mt. Washington, H. H. •Jacksonville, !Fla. * Oswego, N. T. '■Eochester, !N. Y.- *Buflfalo,]S.Y. * Cleveland, Ohio, * Toledo, Ohio. * Detroit, Mick * Chicago, HI. * MiLwatikee, Wi». * St. Paul, Minn, * Du Luth, Minn. * Pittsburg, Pa, Knoxville, Tenn, * Indianapolis, Ind, Lynchburg, Va. Burlington, Vt, * Keokuk, Iowa. * Grand Haven, Micb. * Vicksbxu'g, Miss. Escanaba, Micb. Marquette, Mich. * Davenport, Iowa. * Leavenworth, Kansas, * Cairo, HI. * Cape May, S. J. ~ Galveston, Texas. * Montreal, Canada. Punta Eassa, Fla, * Memphis, Tenn. *lfashviUe, Tenn, * Cincinnati, Ohio, * St. Louis, Mo. Omaha, Neb. Cheyenne, Wy. T, Corinne, Utah. Shreveport, La, * Louisville, Ky. At those places marked with a star, the number of reports^ received and published in the Bulletin is sufficiently large to permit them to be used in the manner pointed out in this paper. The remaining stations, either on account of special reJ^ons connected with their locality, or of those relating to the tele- graphic system, are now chiefly used as reporting stations. The morning and afternoon reports (Bulletins) are posted at each of the local Signal Service offices, and at a number of other public places in the cities and towns to which they are transmitted. They are always open for examination. At the more promi- nent stations, and those in principal cities, large Weather-Maps are also posted every morning, exhibiting, by means of change- able symbols, the reports of the morning observations at the different stations. The midnight report (Bulletin) is gratuitously furnished to every morning newspaper published in the city