A practical guide to the climates and weather of India, Ceylon and Burmah and the storms of the Indian seas . overed to WEATHER AND WEATHER REPORTS 205 a depth of 4 inches. No such occurrence has been recorded eitherjareviously or since at so low a level. On the 26th, 27th, and up tothe 28th, a barometric minimum continued to occupy the Punjab, thepressure rising, however, from a minimum of 2965 to 30 inches, whilethe rain continued extending eastward, the weather clearing up in thewest; so that, on the afternoon of the 27th and forenoon of the 28th,rain was restricted to Bengal, Assam, the Hi
A practical guide to the climates and weather of India, Ceylon and Burmah and the storms of the Indian seas . overed to WEATHER AND WEATHER REPORTS 205 a depth of 4 inches. No such occurrence has been recorded eitherjareviously or since at so low a level. On the 26th, 27th, and up tothe 28th, a barometric minimum continued to occupy the Punjab, thepressure rising, however, from a minimum of 2965 to 30 inches, whilethe rain continued extending eastward, the weather clearing up in thewest; so that, on the afternoon of the 27th and forenoon of the 28th,rain was restricted to Bengal, Assam, the Himalaya, and the UpperPunjab. Probably, therefore, the main disturbance had moved east-wards over Tibet. On the 28th a spell of cold weather with north-west winds set inover Northern India, the temperature falling for several days, and thelowest temperatures of the year were registered in the first week ofFebruary : at Simla and Darjiling the lowest on record. In all prob-ability this cold was the effect of the enormous snowfall which, asmentioned above, descended to lower levels than has been recorded on. Fig. 14.—Weather Chart for 10 , 26tli February 1881. any other occasion. A similar but less intense spell of cold weatherinvariably follows a storm of this character, and the distribution ofpressure and the winds which accompany it are so characteristic, thatthe weather chart on one such occasion is almost exactly reproducedon any other. Fig. 14 represents an occurrence of this kind on the26th February 1881, and in their main features that of the daywhich followed the storm of January 1883 and that published in theSimla weather report of the 22d February 1888 are almost exactlysimilar. These instances will suffice to illustrate the chief vicissi-tudes of the weather of the cold season in Northern close weather with light southerly winds precedesthe storm. Then follows rain ; and if the disturbance is oneof those that first appear in the Indus valley and thence
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