METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE REPORT 



Weather forecasts have, as in the past, been issued from the 

 Central Office twice daily throughout the year for all parts of the 

 Dominion, exclusive of British Columbia, for which province they are 

 issued from Victoria, B.C. In addition to the Dominion forecasts, 

 a bi-daily bulletin is wired to Newfoundland and disseminated widely 

 in that colony. At the request of the British Air Ministry, a special 

 bulletin with forecast included has since March, 1919, been wired 

 twice each day to an officer of the Royal Air Force in St. John's, and 

 very great care has been exercised to make these bulletins of value to 

 aviators. The percentage of verification of Canadian forecasts, 

 exclusive of British Columbia, has been 86-4. 



The Monthly Meteorological Record is now printed as promptly 

 after the close of each month as the receipt of reports from the more 

 distant stations will allow, and mature consideration has confirmed 

 the wisdom of adopting this monthly form of publication in place of 

 an annual climatological report. The Monthly Map has been con- 

 tinued in its old form, and nothing better has been suggested by the 

 agriculturists whose requirements it is intended to serve; also as 

 means of retaining the service of voluntary meteorological observers, 

 it serves a most useful purpose, as these most valued persons greatly 

 appreciate the Dominion-wide information it contains regarding 

 weather conditions. 



The Daily Map is now eagerly looked for by an ever-increasing 

 number of persons interested in meteorological phenomena. 



For various duties in connection with the Service, 390 persons, 

 chiefly observers, have been in receipt of pay, and of this number 37 

 were employed in the Central Office. 



During the season of navigation storms were not of frequent 

 occurrence on the Great Lakes. Twenty-one gales were recorded, 

 and of these, only five reached the force of fresh or heavy in some 

 localities, while others just reached gale force and were not of a 

 general character. In the St. Lawrence, fifteen gales occurred, most 

 of which were quite moderate. In the Maritime Provinces there were 

 thirty gales, the heaviest of which attended the passage of a di3- 

 turbance across Cape Breton on the 14th of November. 



The percentage of verification of storm warnings was (SI -6. 



Proc, Sig. 5 



