Abstract:
Collected and sorted out
The Pictorial News, which famous as one of the three major illustrated current affairs newspapers in Shanghai during November 1907 to November 1910, selected 40 pieces of pictorials which related to meteorology from them, and statistical analyzed meteorological events recorded by those pictorials. Those records included 15 gusty winds, 11 rains, 10 floods, 7 lightning strikes, 7 snows, 3 droughts, 2 hails, 1 tornado, 1 climate event, 1 artificial precipitation experiment in those pictorials. Those meteorological records were informative, but parts of the records lacked detailed time information, so we sorted and inferred detailed time and place information of those records by referenced printed borders version, historic events in the pictures and chorography. Then we confirmed meteorological events’ truth by contrasted one piece of pictorials and meteorological records from Wuhu customs during the same period, also compared the meteorological records between this article and
China three thousand years of meteorological records, 9 meteorological records in this article can founded in
China three thousand years of meteorological records, but those 9 records had more detailed information like time and descriptions of disasters. Other 31 meteorological records in this article can’t found in
China three thousand years of meteorological records. The confirmation result showed those news related to meteorology were true and reliable, and all those meteorological records can used to supplement the records
in China three thousand years of meteorological records, augmented meteorological records at the last years of the Qing Dynasty.