The Record Winds — the typhoon of 2 September 1937
Research article The Record Winds The typhoon of 2 September 1937 — the record-breaker on its own record’s testimony, and the counts the record kept Histsyn · Independent research Compiled 10 October 2026 · Endnotes and bibliography after The Chicago Manual of Style , 17th ed. Abstract The typhoon of 2 September 1937 broke the colony’s instruments before it broke anything else. The Observatory’s official report put the anemograph beyond its own register — squalls “greater than 125 m.p.h.”; the press carried the estimates upward — the Director’s 150, the Hong Kong Electric instrument’s one gust of 160 m.p.h. ; and the Director’s annual report settled the year’s verdict: the barometer minimum 28.298 inches , “the lowest recorded since observations commenced in 1884”, and “it seems probable that the typhoon was the most violent which has ever v...
