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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 47

Meteorological Office

Meteorological Office.

The operations of this office were considerably extended during the year. There are now in operation 10 Chief stations, 14 reporting by telegraph, 4 reserve, 39 storm-signal, and more than 100 ordinary stations. The most important of the new stations are Inverness, Skeena River, McLeod's Lake and Stewart's Lake, B.C.; Moose Fort, Hudsons Bay and Placentia, Newfoundland. A general synopsis of the weather in Canada for the past twenty-four hours and the probabilities for the next twenty-four was made out dally at Toronto at 10 a.m., and furnished to the telegraph companies for publication in the evening newspapers. There were at the close of the year 95 places where daily weather bulletins were published, a copy posted in the Post Office and another in the Telegraph Office each day before noon. 20 of these stations are in the Maritime Provinces. Out of 3,372 prognostications issued, 2,660 were fully verified, and 459 partly so. 743 storm warnings were issued, of which 510 were verified, of these 262 were for the Lakes, 81 for the St. Lawrence and Gulf, and 167 for the Ocean. The expenditure was $36,500 being $500 less than the appropriation.