THE METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE OF CANADA. 



The work carried on in connection with the Meteorological Service, 

 includes, Weat/ier Forecasting ; Climatology ; Seismology ; Terrestrial 

 Magnetism; Solar Research and a Time Service. 



Weather Forecasting. — Weather forecasts covering 36 hours in ad- 

 vance, and sometimes a longer interval, have been issued twice daily 

 tlu'oughout the year. The weather charts on which the forecasts are 

 based, have entered on them, information obtained by telegraph from 

 36 stations in Canada and 64 stations in the United States, also three 

 stations in Newfoundland, and from Bermuda. The forenoon chart is 

 ready for inspection ordinarily about 9.45 a.m., and the forecast official 

 having drawn the isobars, first issues a bulletin for the Maritime Pro- 

 vinces, including forecasts for the current and following day for Nova 

 Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, and also for vessels 

 leaving for the Grand Banks and for American ports. Then follows a 

 forecast for the Western Provinces which is telegraphed without delay to 

 AVinnipeg, where a local agent — who has meanwhile received weather 

 telegrams from some 23 points, additional to those received in Toronto — 

 j)repares a bulletin, giving a general synopsis of existing weather con- 

 ditions, and also includes all weather reports received together with the 

 forecasts from Toronto. Tliis bulletin is then distributed in Winnipeg 

 and telegraphed to the more important centres in the Prairie Provinces. 

 The Central Office forecast official lastly prepares a bulletin for Ontario 

 and Quebec which is usually despatched about 10.10 and is published very 

 widely by the afternoon press as well as being posted at telegraph offices, 

 post offices and other frequented places. At all the larger towns in these 

 provinces a special effort has been made to have these bulletins exposed 

 on wharves and docks within easy reach of shipping people and fishermen. 



The evening weather chart lilce that of the morning is usually ready 

 for inspection about 9.45, and with as little delay as possible a bulletin 

 is prepared for the press and forecasts are issued for all parts of the 

 Dominion, exclusive of British Columbia. These forecasts are distributed 

 by the telegraph companies to most of the telegraph offices in the Do- 

 minion, and by arrangement are posted up in a frame hung in a con- 

 spicuous place, and nearly every morning journal publishes them, gen- 

 erally on the front page. 



During the winter months a very large number of special forecasts 

 were made for shippers of perishable goods, enquiries being made by both 

 telephone and telegraph. Indeed, it is probable that nearly all shippers 



