THE METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE OF CANADA. 
A fairly comprehensive report of the system of weather forecasts 
and storm warnings in connection with the Meteorological Service was 
given in last year’s Proceedings, and the description therein will apply 
equally well to the past year, during which there has been no break in 
the work of the Service. An important extension of the boundaries 
within which the forecasts and storm warnings are disseminated has, 
however, been made by the inclusion of Newfoundland, which colony 
has since February received Meteorological bulletins quite similar to 
those distributed in the Canadian Provinces. For the purposes of 
forecasting Newfoundland is not quite as well situated geographically as 
are the Maritime Provinces, inasmuch as a certain percentage of high 
and low areas approach the island from the territory between Labrador 
and Hudson’s Bay, while others move northward from the Atlantic: 
and it is only from barometric changes occurring at Bermuda and Sable 
Island that their approach may be suspected. The Newfoundland 
Government has established valuable stations at Pointe aux Basques in 
the extreme west and at Burin in the south, both of which forward 
bi-daily reports to Toronto. Other stations in the north are desirable, 
and it is hoped that a station will shortly be placed near the mouth of 
Hamilton Inlet, to give indication of barometric changes occurring on 
the Labrador Coast. During the past year the percentage of verification 
of storm warnings issued to Canadian ports has been 92.0, which is 2.2 
per cent higher than in the previous year, and the percentage of verifi- 
cation of the daily forecasts issued at 10 p.m. has been 86.3. 
The barometric stations which were established in the summer of 
1908 in the valley of the Mackenzie River are furnishing most valuable 
observations of atmospheric pressure in the far north, and while as yet 
the data available are insufficient to allow of definite conclusions as to 
the cause of the formation of anti-cyclones in high latitudes, it is obvious 
that important progress has been made towards filling the gap in a region 
hitherto furnishing only scattered and occasional reports. 
It is doubtful whether there is any other region of the globe where 
the distribution of atmospheric pressure has so pronounced an effect on 
weather conditions as in Southern Alberta, and this because a baro- 
metric gradient for northerly winds in winter means the transference of 
air from continental high latitudes across this country, while a westerly 
gradient means the flow of mild ocean air still further raised in tem- 
perature by the chinook effect. Within the boundaries of this region a 
high level Meteorological station was established about ten years ago, on 
