A practical guide to the climates and weather of India, Ceylon and Burmah and the storms of the Indian seas . ral description, thechanges that precede and accompany this cold weather rain-fall. The first instance is one in which the disturbanceapparently originated in India. On reference to Figure 3 on page 25, which shows the averagedistribution of pressure in the month of January, it may be observedthat on the west coast of India the isobars all make a loop northward,indicating a trough of low pressure. In January 1883 this troughwas more than usually developed, and on several occasions in t
A practical guide to the climates and weather of India, Ceylon and Burmah and the storms of the Indian seas . ral description, thechanges that precede and accompany this cold weather rain-fall. The first instance is one in which the disturbanceapparently originated in India. On reference to Figure 3 on page 25, which shows the averagedistribution of pressure in the month of January, it may be observedthat on the west coast of India the isobars all make a loop northward,indicating a trough of low pressure. In January 1883 this troughwas more than usually developed, and on several occasions in theearly part of the month extended northward, encroaching on the regionof high pressure that, at this season, usually occupies North-western WEATHER AND WEATHER REPORTS 203 India. This state of things is shown in Fig. 11, which is the weatherchart of 10 on the 4th January. The wind arrows show that, inconformity with this anomalous barometric feature, light southerlywinds prevailed at several stations in the west of India, and easterlywinds in Kathiawar and Eajputana, blowing cyclonically around the. Fig. 11.—Weather Chart for 10 ,4fch January 1883. loop of the isobars, and bringing damp oppressive weather to WesternIndia. Up to the 9th, only a few light showers fell on the most nor-therly hills of the Punjab and at their foot. But on this day the de-
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