Excerpt from Annual Report of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army to the Secretary of War for the Year 1889, Vol. 1 of 2 Each official of this Service has been given full credit for the fore casting work done by him, his name appearing in the Monthly Weather Review, with percentages of successful work as regards the prediction of weather, the display of storm signals, and cold-wave warnings. In Appendix 3 will be found the yearly summary, wherein appears the relative standing of each official, both in detail and for the year. The present system of signals, adopted two years since, is most advantageous and satisfactory, as it gives clear and definite informa tion. By the use of two flags and two pennants the general public are informed whether the storm is to be light or severe, whether its centre is approaching or has finally passed the station, and from what quarter high winds are expected. The yellow cautionary signals indi cate winds which it is believed will be dangerous to light craft or illy provided vessels, while the red storm flag indicates the more danger ous and violent gales. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.