A practical guide to the climates and weather of India, Ceylon and Burmah and the storms of the Indian seas . Fig. 21.—Weather Chart for 10 , 30th June 1883. direction was maintained across the whole width of the peninsula, ata rate of about 15 miles an hour during the greater part of the dis-tance, but reduced to not more than 8 miles an hour while traversingthe hilly country that intervenes between Orissa and Sambalpur. Itsintensity also, as indicated by the depression of the barometer at itscentre, was reduced by nearly two-thirds in this part of its course ;but it recruited its strengt
A practical guide to the climates and weather of India, Ceylon and Burmah and the storms of the Indian seas . Fig. 21.—Weather Chart for 10 , 30th June 1883. direction was maintained across the whole width of the peninsula, ata rate of about 15 miles an hour during the greater part of the dis-tance, but reduced to not more than 8 miles an hour while traversingthe hilly country that intervenes between Orissa and Sambalpur. Itsintensity also, as indicated by the depression of the barometer at itscentre, was reduced by nearly two-thirds in this part of its course ;but it recruited its strength, on being fed by the monsoon current WEATHER AND WEATHER REPORTS 215 from the Bombay coast, and after passing out to the Arabian Sea, itregained its original cyclonic force. The centre passed north of Cut-tack and Sambalpur, close to Seoni, Indore and Bhuj ; after which, onthe morning of the 3d July, it left the land, travelling out to thesouth of Kurrachee. During the transit, the winds were strongestand the rainfall heaviest to the south of the central track. To the north. Fig. 22.—Weather Chart jor 10 , 2d July 18S3. of it, in equal proximity to the centre, the rainfall was not more than one-fourth as heavy. The strength of the wind in different parts of thestorm was very variable ; where strongest it did not exceed 43 milesan hour on the average of 24 hours, and at very few places amounted
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