NOVEMBER, 1932 MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW 229
NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN, NOVEMBER, 1932
By WILLIS E. HURD
Atmospheric pressure.-The center of the Aleutian LOW
during November, 1932, lay over the northwestern part
of the Gulf of Alaska. Here the average pressure was
below the normal, although in the adjacent part of the
Bering Sea it was considerably above.
The crest of the oceanic high-pressure region lay off the California coast, and a narrow anticyclonic belt extended thence across the ocean in southern waters of the temper-
ate zone, widening toward the dsiatic coast, wbere the
continental HIGHS extended seaward over Japan and the neighboring islands to the southward.
TABLE 1.-Averages, departures, and extremes of atmospheric pres- sure at sea level, North Pacijic Ocean, November, 2932, at selected stations
Stations Average pressure
Inches 30.18 29.71 29.81 29.51 29.67 29.96
30.11 29.92 30.01 30.00 29.84 29.81 30.04 30.02 29.97
Depar- ture from iormal
Inch
+o. 19
f. 12
f. 25
-. 05
-. 09
-. 01
+. 02
-. 04
-. 01
-. 08
-. 02
+. 06
+. 04
-
-.on
- - - - -. .
-
Eigh- est
~
Inches 30.68 30.32 30.14 30.24 30.47 30.48 30.33 30.00 30.16 30.16 29.90 29.96 30.28 30.26 30.28
Date
1 4 1 1 1
26,28 9
10 10
5 20,21,27 29 18 17,30 17
in 18
375
-
;owes
__
Inches a. en
28.90
29. an
28.66
28.50 28.82 29.17
29.82 29.82 29.54 29.74 29.52 29.58
29.72 29.48
~
Date
-
28
30 30 24
5 1
26 9 18 14
8
10 12 14 15
NOTE.-Data based on 1 daily observation only, except those for Juneau, Tatoosh Island, San Francisco, and Honolulu which are based on 2 observations. Departures are computed from best available noimals related to time of observation.
Cyclones and gales.-During November a succession of cyclones, many of them accompanied by snow, appeared on the northern part of the North Pacific, but a concentrs-
tion of cyclonic activity occurred in the Gulf of Alaska. I n consequence of the barometrically depressed condition
in northeastern waters and the frequent extension of low pressure into middle latitudes, fresh to whole gales were
experienced on several days to the eastward of 170' W. by northern-route vessels. High winds were reported off
the Washington and Oregon coasts on three or four days during the existence of these far-reaching LOWS. The heaviest winds of the month thus far reported in con-
nection with extratropical cyclones were those of the 3d-4th-maximum force 11-near latitude 40' N., longi-
tude 134' W., and that of the 10th-force 12-near 5l0N.,
163' w. In east longitudes less than the usual amount of stormy weather for the month, associated with higher-latitude
cyclones, seems to have occurred. The region of most
frequent storminess lay southeast of the Kuril Islands. In midocean an extensive depression occurred near the
middle of November. It reached far southward and on
the 14th caused a barometric fall to 29.54 inches a t Mid-
way Island. On this day scattered gales of force 8-9
were reported from an enormous area between latitudes
30' and 45' N., longitudes 165' E. and 165' W. Typhoon of November 7-16.-About November 7 a de-
pression appeared east of the Philippine Islands. From the 8th to 11th it affected the central and northern part of the archipelago as it slowly moved northward. The
lowest pressure at Manila occurred on the 10th and a t
Naha on the 12th. On the 13th the typhoon lay south of
Kiushu Island, Japan, developing rapidly. On the 14th and 15th it went up the east Japanese coast, causing
full-storm to hurricane velocities over the near-by sea, and on the 16th, south of the Kurils, was working rapidly toward the Aleutians. Among the vessels involved in this
storm the American tankship California perhaps bore the
fullest brunt of it. She passed through the typhoon center in 32' N., 137' E., on the afternoon of the 14th, lowest barometer 28.31 inches. The wind there dropped
from a southeast hurricane to variable puffs, force 2. During the relative calm, numbers of ducks and land birds
were observed. On the other side of the center hurricane
winds from the northwest were estimated to have a velocity of 125 miles an hour.
Tehmntepecers.-Over and near the Gulf of Tehuan-
tepec norther gales occurred on several days, as follows: Of force 7 on the 6th and 25th; of force 8 on the 19th and 20th; and of force 9 on the 13th) 29th, and 30th.
Fog.-Very little fog was observed far a t sea, but off the central California coast it was reported on 10 days,
diminishing northward to the Columbia River and south-
ward to Cape San Lucas.