A practical guide to the climates and weather of India, Ceylon and Burmah and the storms of the Indian seas . Fio. 2V.—Storm Tracks of October in the Bay of Bengal. The fourth table shows that the rate at which stormstravel across the bay does not, as a rule, exceed from 4 to. Fig. 28.—Storm Tracks of November in the Bay of Bengal. 8 miles an hour. The chief exceptions, exceeding theserates, occur in September, October, and November. The STORMS OF INDIAN SEAS 233 highest rate recorded in my list of storms (with one doubt-ful exception) is 14 or 15 miles an hour, which was satis-factorily deter
A practical guide to the climates and weather of India, Ceylon and Burmah and the storms of the Indian seas . Fio. 2V.—Storm Tracks of October in the Bay of Bengal. The fourth table shows that the rate at which stormstravel across the bay does not, as a rule, exceed from 4 to. Fig. 28.—Storm Tracks of November in the Bay of Bengal. 8 miles an hour. The chief exceptions, exceeding theserates, occur in September, October, and November. The STORMS OF INDIAN SEAS 233 highest rate recorded in my list of storms (with one doubt-ful exception) is 14 or 15 miles an hour, which was satis-factorily determined by Mr. Pedler as that of the FalsePoint cyclone of the 22d September 1885, when travers-ing the north-west corner of the bay. Incurvature of Winds and Bearing of the StormCentre.—The next point I shall notice is one of extremeimportance to the seaman, viz. the bearing of the stormcentre with reference to the direction of the wind, since henmst depend on this, even more than on the fall of hisbarometer, for judging of his position in the storm, ^v and what course to pursue in order to escape / from the violent winds that blow immediately /around the central calm. The most convenient ®\way of expressing this relation is to suppose aline drawn from the ships po
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