WEATHER REPORT DATA, JUNE-NOVEMBER 1953, EXTRACTED FROM CHINESE COMMUNIST PRESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700170121-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 121
• Publication Date: March 19, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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WEATHER REPORT DATA, JUNE-NOVER4BER 1953,
EXTRACTED FROM CHINESE COMMUNIST PRESS
TYPHOON WARNINGS -- Peiping, Kua-ig-ming Jih-pao, 6 Jun 53
The Central Weather Station of the People's Republic of China issued the
following urgent typhoon warning at 1800 on 5 June: "At 1400 hours, on 5 June,
the typhoon center was 170 kilometers south of Kao-hsiung on Taiwan at 21 5 N,
120 2 E. Maximum wind velocity is about.40 meters per second, and 220 kilo-
meters from the storm center, wind velocity has reached 14 meters per second.
At present, the typhoon center is moving north at a speed of 18 kilometers per
hour and is gradually shifting direction to north northeast."
Peiping, Kuang-ming Jih-pao, 4 Jul 53
The Central Weather Station issued an urgent typhoon warning at 1800 hours on
3 July. "At 1400 hours on 3 July, the typhoon center is out at sea 280 kilo-
meters east southeast of Heng-ch'un on Taiwan. The maximum wind velocity has
reached 70 meters per second (Class 18 of the Beaufort scale), and 320 kilometers
from the center, the wind velocity had reached 25 meters per second (Beaufort..
Class 10). At present, the typhoon is travelling northwest and is gradually turn-
ing north northwest at a speed of 18 kilometers per hour. It is predicted that
the typhoon will strike south of Wen-chou-wan in Chekiang Province within 12 hours."
RAINFAIS, -- Tientsin, Ta Kung Pao, 20 Nov 53
There was no rainfall in most of Honan Province from mid-August to the end
of October 1953?
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