A practical guide to the climates and weather of India, Ceylon and Burmah and the storms of the Indian seas . Fig. 11.—Weather Chart for 10 ,4fch January 1883. loop of the isobars, and bringing damp oppressive weather to WesternIndia. Up to the 9th, only a few light showers fell on the most nor-therly hills of the Punjab and at their foot. But on this day the de-. FiG. 12.—Weather Chart for 10 , Oth January 1883. pression extended so as to occupy the whole of Central and WesternIndia, as shown on the weather chart for 10 of the 9th (Fig. 12).Damp and warm southerly and easterly wi
A practical guide to the climates and weather of India, Ceylon and Burmah and the storms of the Indian seas . Fig. 11.—Weather Chart for 10 ,4fch January 1883. loop of the isobars, and bringing damp oppressive weather to WesternIndia. Up to the 9th, only a few light showers fell on the most nor-therly hills of the Punjab and at their foot. But on this day the de-. FiG. 12.—Weather Chart for 10 , Oth January 1883. pression extended so as to occupy the whole of Central and WesternIndia, as shown on the weather chart for 10 of the 9th (Fig. 12).Damp and warm southerly and easterly winds now prevailed over thewhole of Central and Northern India, and on this and the followingday rain fell over the greater part of the North-west Provinces, theEastern Punjab, Central India, and Chutia Nagpur, up to the confines 204 CLIMATES AND WEATHER OF INDIA of Bengal, and snow on the North-west Himalaya. This rainfall tractis indicated by the shaded portion of the chart. When the rain ceased, on the 10th, a band of high pressure wasestablished from the Indus valley across Rajputana and Central India,and cool west and north-west winds prevailed for a day or two in thePunjab and North-west Provinces, as usually happens after falls of rainat this season. But this did not last long, and later on the troughagain extended with a repetition of the rain. The se
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