1884.] Himalaya Snowfall with Drought in India. 



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be fed by descending currents from the North- Western Himalaya and 

 possibly the western mountains generally. 



4th. It is a common and well-known phenomenon of the winter 

 months that a fall of rain and snow on the North- Western Himalaya 

 is immediately followed by a wave of high pressure advancing east- 

 wards from the western mountains, accompanied with dry cool north- 

 west winds. 



Baric and Wind Chart for 10 A.M. of February 26, 1881. 



5th. The conclusion is that an unusual expanse of snow on the 

 North-Western Himalaya, whether due to the unmelted residue of an 

 unusually copious winter snowfall, or to an unusually late fall in the 

 spring months, acts, at high levels, in the summer months, in some- 

 what the same way as the ordinary falls of snow and rain on the 

 Lower Himalaya do at low levels in the winter season, and favours 



