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Typhoon Shirley

 
ESSA 6 APT picture of 'Shirley'
Figure 1. ESSA 6 APT picture of 'Shirley' taken at about 10.35 a.m. on August 18,1968.
  
 
ESSA 6 APT picture of Typhoon 'Shirley'
Figure 2. ESSA 6 APT picture of Typhoon 'Shirley' taken at about 11.21 a.m. on August 21,1968.
  
 
The eye of 'Shirley"

Figure 3. The eye of 'Shirley' as shown by the Observatory's Type 43S Radar at Tate's Cairn on the morning of August 21, 1968.
(Radar centre off-set with range markers at 40 n mile intervals).

  
 
Barogram of Typhoon 'Shirley'

Figure 4. Barogram of Typhoon 'Shirley' during the period August 19 - 20, 1968.