Results obtained from the analysis of Northern‐Hemisphere weather maps for 1936–1937

Abstract

Since October 1, 1936, the analysis of a continuous series of charts of the Northern Hemisphere, once daily, has been carried on without interruption at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The reports used for each region are those coinciding most nearly in time with the 8 p.m. (eastern standard time) observations in the United States. Most of the necessary observations have been received directly by radio. However, the western Pacific and eastern Asiatic observations have up to the present been delayed two days beyond the others, for direct radio reception of these reports has been found difficult, so that it has been necessary to depend upon observations for this area mailed to us each day from the United States Weather Bureau in Washington. It is hoped that in the near future it will be possible to receive the broadcast of these data directly from Honolulu. Unfortunately one bad gap in the circumpolar distribution of observational data still remains—that of central Asia. However, it is usually possible, between the European Russian stations in the west and the eastern Asiatic observations, at least to get some idea of the larger features of the intervening pressure‐distribution. Furthermore, it is hoped that in the near future it will be possible to receive directly the present broadcast from Moscow of central Asiatic reports.