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A practical guide to the climates and weather of India, Ceylon and Burmah and the storms of the Indian seas . 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. Fig. 23.—Weather Chart for 10 , 3d July 1883. to 25 miles. At one station it appears to have been as high as 64miles an hour on the average of six hours, bu
A practical guide to the climates and weather of India, Ceylon and Burmah and the storms of the Indian seas . 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. Fig. 23.—Weather Chart for 10 , 3d July 1883. to 25 miles. At one station it appears to have been as high as 64miles an hour on the average of six hours, but this is the only instanceof an inland station where it had the force of a strong gale until thestorm again approached the sea. There do not appear to have been, in this storm, any of thoseexceptionally high rainfalls of 20 or 30 inches in the 24 hours that have been registered on certain other similar occasions. The highest 2i6 CLIMATES AND WEATHER OF INDIA noticed by Mr. Eliot are 1005 inches on the 3d July at Rajkote, and9-44 inches on the 29th June at Pooree. But there was an averageof 615 inches over the whole Pooree subdivision of the Cuttack dis-trict, 45 inches over that of Cuttack, and 266 inches over that ofBalasore on the latter of these days ; and of 10-56 inches, 96 inches,and 768 inches respectively on the same subdivisions in the threedays 28th to 30th June. In the Central Provinces, an average of6-13 inches f
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