THE METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE OF CANADA. 



Reports have been received at the Central Office from 657 stations, 

 including telegraph reporting stations, climatological and storm 

 signal stations. 



Forecasts and Storm Warnings: — Bi-daily synchronous weather 

 charts have been compiled on every day throughout the year, Sundays 

 and holidays included, based on telegraphic reports from 39 stations 

 in Canada, 100 from the United States, 5 from Newfoundland, and 

 1 from Bermuda. These charts have formed the basis of the forecasts 

 and storm warnings which have been issued from Toronto for all 

 the provinces, exclusive of British Columbia. The daily chart 

 showing the meteorological conditions over the Northern Hemisphere 

 at 8 a.m. local time, which is usually ready for inspection by 11 a.m., 

 affords much valuable information regarding the movements of cyclones 

 and anticyclones in high latitudes, and will ultimately be the means 

 of materially increasing the range of forecasts. 



Storm warnings have been issued to 1 1 1 display stations in Canada 

 and of 2,271 warnings issued 95% were verified by subsequent high 

 winds; 304 warnings were received late, 186 owing to issue, and 118 

 owing to telegraphic delays. 



Forecasts have been telegraphed twice daily to Newfoundland, 

 and storm warnings were issued when it was deemed expedient. 

 In all no less than 54 separate warnings were sent to display stations. 



Magnetic Observations — Records of the various Magnetic elements 

 were secured at the Agincourt Observatory, without interruption 

 throughout the year. The zeros of the differential photographic 

 recording instruments were determined by absolute observations 

 as formerly, weekly for declination, and twice monthly for horizontal 

 force. Absolute observations of inclination were made weekly with 

 the Toepfer Earth Inductor. 



Westerly Declination has increased from 6°-17'-l in March, 

 1913, to 6° -22' -4 in March, 1914. The Horizontal Force has decreased 

 from 0-16150 C.G.S. units to • 16099, and the Inclination has increased 

 from 74°40'-7 to 74°41'-7. 



The year was marked by the absence of large Magnetic dis- 

 turbance and the very infrequent occurrence of even smaller dis- 

 turbances; 233 days were classified as calm; 126 as lightly disturbed, 

 and 6 days as disturbed. The largest disturbance of the year oc- 

 curred on May 5th and 6th. The range of Declination during the 

 disturbance was 55' -0 and in Horizontal Force the range was 121 

 gammas. 



