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in Bengal, it again rose above the average, and except for another 

 fall on the 27th and 28th, just before the rain, it remained excessive 

 daring the latter part of the month (save, indeed, in the Western 

 Punjab), the excess culminating on the 21st and 25th. On the 

 plains of the Western Punjab the temperature was very high ; at 

 Rawalpindi, on some days, as much as 10 or 12 above the average 

 of the month ; which fact probably explains the local anomaly of the 

 average pressure in that region. 



The high pressure thus established in the latter part of June lasted 

 in the Eastern Punjab and the North- Western Provinces, with but 

 slight intermission, throughout the first half of July, being very 

 excessive at the beginning and end of that period. To the eastward 

 in Bengal, and to the south-east and south in the Central Provinces 

 and Bombay, as well as in the Western Punjab, the oscillations were 

 similar in phase, but the average excess was either less pronounced 

 or altogether nullified and reversed, the pressure being above the 

 average only for a few days at the beginning and after the 15th of the 

 month. An abnormal excess of pressure relatively to the remainder 

 of Northern India was therefore existent in the Eastern Punjab and 

 the North- Western Provinces. 



In the latter part of the month, after the cessation of the rain, 

 the pressure fell generally below the average in Northern India, 

 and especially in the Punjab and North- Western Provinces, but 

 the northern part of Bombay formed an exception to the rule. A 

 great deficiency of pressure both on the hills* and plains characterized 

 also the first days of August, and on the plains and at the western- 

 most hill station, Mnrree, this was associated with an excessive 

 temperature ; but at Simla, Chakrata, and Ranikhet, the latter was 

 more or less considerably below the average. After the 6th the 

 pressure rose again, and smaller oscillations, lasting five or six days, 

 followed during the remainder of the month. In the Punjab, 

 the North-Western Provinces, and Bengal, the mean pressure of 

 the month was slightly below the average of many years. In 

 Rajputaua, Gujarat, Sind, and Western and Central India generally, 

 such was not the case, since in this region an excessive pressure 

 prevailed throughout the middle of the month for seventeen or 

 eighteen days after the 6th. This coincided with the peiiod of the 

 greatest and most extensive drought. 



At the hill stations the oscillations of pressure were similar to 

 those on the plains, though less in amount. At Simla and Murree 

 the mean pressure of the two months, July and August, scarcely 

 deviated from the normal average. But at Leh in both mouths there 

 was a decided deficiency, and it was but slightly less at Chakrutu 

 and Ranikhet. 



That is at levels of ubout 7,000 feet. 



