Handbook of the Law of Storms (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...rela-, tions of the as to the storms in the localities already specified. Just to dian hurri-the SOuth of the eastern district of the monsoons, we find the resumption of the zone of variable winds and calms; and the occurrence of the typhoons at nearly the same season as that of the West Indian hurricane, clearly points to the causes of the two being identical. It is to be remarked that the southern limit of the typhoon district nearly coincides with the limit of the monsoon, and also, that part of the typhoon limit merges into the monsoon district; and here it is that difference of season between the two sets of hurricanes appears to receive its explanation, the typhoon region partaking somewhat of the nature of the hurricane region in the Bay of Bengal. The following table of the distribution as regards season of cyclones in the China Sea will exhibit this: --HURRICANE SEASON, CHINA SEA. canes and the typhoons of the China Seas similar. There is some reason to believe that cyclones occur in the China Seas in the month of May, but the information at present obtained is not sufficient to include it in the hurricane season. Kosser classes the China Sea and the west part of the North Pacific as constituting one hurricane region, "because the monsoons are prevalent over both," and he gives a table of seventy-five hurricanes met with in these seas during the months May to December, as follows: --September 22 October 15 November... 12 December 1 This table agrees with the one given in the text, the occurrence of hurricanes in the first three months of the one, and four months of the other, being as 1 to 2 in comparison with the last three and four months respectively. The following remarks of Kosser are important: --" As regards the China Sea and Chi...