A practical guide to the climates and weather of India, Ceylon and Burmah and the storms of the Indian seas . valley, and, therefore,that the eastern branch of the monsoon is withheld fromthe Upper Provinces. The accompanying chart of the 9 thAugust 1882 (Fig. 24) is a good illustration of these ab-normal features. On this occasion there was a prolongedbreak in the rains from the 5 th to the 20 th of the month. 2I{ CLIMATES AND WEATHER OF INDIA during the whole of which time the charts exhibited thesepeculiarities of the isobars. It was observed on a previous page that the serenity ofthe weath
A practical guide to the climates and weather of India, Ceylon and Burmah and the storms of the Indian seas . valley, and, therefore,that the eastern branch of the monsoon is withheld fromthe Upper Provinces. The accompanying chart of the 9 thAugust 1882 (Fig. 24) is a good illustration of these ab-normal features. On this occasion there was a prolongedbreak in the rains from the 5 th to the 20 th of the month. 2I{ CLIMATES AND WEATHER OF INDIA during the whole of which time the charts exhibited thesepeculiarities of the isobars. It was observed on a previous page that the serenity ofthe weather of a great part of Northern India is rarely dis-turbed during the 2 or 3 months that follow on the cessa-tion of the rains in September or October, This is strictlytrue of Upper India, but somewhat less so of Bengal. Inthis province and Assam, the rains last well into October,and both in this and the early part of the following monthsevere cyclones from the bay sometimes reach the some of the most destructive storms on record haveoccurred in October and November, although several years. Pig. 24.—Weather Chart for 10 , .itli August 1S82. may pass without such a visitation. But October is oftena stormy month in the bay, and even though the hurricanecore of the storm may not reach its northern shores, nogreat disturbance occurs in any part of the bay that doesnot make itself felt in Lower Bengal by close damp weatherand cloudy skies. The signs and prognostics of thesestorms will, however, be more fitly noticed in the nextsection of this work. When the monsoon has ceased to blow to Upper India,that branch which comes from the bay is still directed fora few weeks towards the north-east of the peninsula; butfeebly and with frequent intermission. Mr. Eliot recordsnine cyclonic storms in the months of September and October,and two in November, in the 10 years 1877-1886, that WEATHER AND WEATHER REPORTS 219 crossed the coast between the Chilka lake and the mouth
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