A practical guide to the climates and weather of India, Ceylon and Burmah and the storms of the Indian seas . rally light winds. Over theeastern half of this depression, and in Bengal and Assam,much rain foils without much local barometric disturbance,especially during the low stage of a surge; but heavier fallsoccur at intervals along definite belts of country, which aretraversed by cyclonic storms, formed either over the head ofthe bay, or locally in some part of the permanent tracks of these storms are, with rare exceptions, betw^eenwest and north-west, and they succeed one a
A practical guide to the climates and weather of India, Ceylon and Burmah and the storms of the Indian seas . rally light winds. Over theeastern half of this depression, and in Bengal and Assam,much rain foils without much local barometric disturbance,especially during the low stage of a surge; but heavier fallsoccur at intervals along definite belts of country, which aretraversed by cyclonic storms, formed either over the head ofthe bay, or locally in some part of the permanent tracks of these storms are, with rare exceptions, betw^eenwest and north-west, and they succeed one another atlonger or shorter intervals all through the monsoon ; reachingin some cases only as far as Central India or the ISTorth-westProvinces, but also occasionally to the Punjab, Sind, orKathiawar; whence, in some rare instances, they pass out 212 CLIMATES AND WEATHER OF INDIA to the north of the Arabian Sea, with increasing intensity,and give rise to stormy weather on the Gwadar coast. These cyclonic storms are so important a feature of therainy season, and influence so greatly the distribution of the. Fig. 16.—Weather Chart for 10 , 8tli September 1882. rainfall, that a more detailed notice of one or two instanceswill much facilitate a due comprehension of the character-istic weather of this season. Figs. 16 to 19 represent four stages of a storm that travelled fromthe Bay of Bengal to the Punjab and Sind at the close of the rainy
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