A practical guide to the climates and weather of India, Ceylon and Burmah and the storms of the Indian seas . Fig. 16.—Weather Chart for 10 , 8tli September 1882. rainfall, that a more detailed notice of one or two instanceswill much facilitate a due comprehension of the character-istic weather of this season. Figs. 16 to 19 represent four stages of a storm that travelled fromthe Bay of Bengal to the Punjab and Sind at the close of the rainy. Fig. 17.—Weather Chart for 10 , lOtli September 1882. season of 1882. It was formed over the head of the bay, off theOrissa , on the 6th an


A practical guide to the climates and weather of India, Ceylon and Burmah and the storms of the Indian seas . Fig. 16.—Weather Chart for 10 , 8tli September 1882. rainfall, that a more detailed notice of one or two instanceswill much facilitate a due comprehension of the character-istic weather of this season. Figs. 16 to 19 represent four stages of a storm that travelled fromthe Bay of Bengal to the Punjab and Sind at the close of the rainy. Fig. 17.—Weather Chart for 10 , lOtli September 1882. season of 1882. It was formed over the head of the bay, off theOrissa , on the 6th and 7th September, reached the Punjab on the14th, and finally disappeared in Ujjper Sind on the 18th, having thuslasted at least 12 days. It brought heavy rain to Orissa on the 7th and8th, while in Eastern and Northern Bengal but little fell ; as is usually WEATHER AND WEATHER REPORTS 213 the case when the centre of the storm lies so far to the south. But inthe Central Provinces there was heavy general rain from the 8th tothe 11th ; in Central India on the 11th and 12th ; in Northern Raj-putana up to the 13th ; and in the Punjab between the 10th and15th. On the other hand, the North-west Provinces, Oudh, and Behar,which lay at a distance to the north of the track, had little or no


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