This paper seeks therefore to accomplish four interconnected aims. First, to consider the development of meteorological services in British Hong Kong, and to a lesser extent Singapore, to highlight a lesser known aspect of the story of nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial meteorological science. Second, to draw attention to the region’s extreme weather as a unique factor which differentiated imperial science in the colonies from meteorology in Britain. The weather provided a catalyst for investment in regional research ultimately critical to understanding global drivers in the evolution of meteorological science. Third, to consider the history of making observations in the region. This history joined the maritime community with the terrestrial meteorological organisations. As scholars have noted, ships could rightly be considered ‘itinerant observatories’ generating knowledge through the intimate experience of ship’s officers with oceanic weather. Finally, it will explore something of the knowledge network that linked the colonial port city of Hong Kong, and to a lesser extent Singapore, via the shipping and communications channels that criss-crossed the China Seas and connected East and Southeast Asia.
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