1903.] C. Little — On two remarkable rain-bursts in Bengal, 45 



Table X (b) 



Rainfall. 



Assam . . . 

 North Bengal 

 East Bengal 

 South-west Bengal 

 Bihar 



United Provinces 

 Punjaub ... 

 Simla Hills 

 Kashmir 

 Darjeeling 

 Cherrapoonjee 

 Orissa ... 

 Circars ... 



No. of 

 Stations. 



Before 

 11th August 



11th August. 



After 

 11th August, 



5 



2908 



12-40 



16*05 



7 



2086 



29-43 



15*88 



7 



ll'Oi 



28 71 



14*22 



9 



5-05 



lo'li 



3-46 



13 



13-54 



12-94 



846 



12 



14-39 



1-32 



033 



6 



0'05 



1-31 



2*13 



5 



8-46 



2-06 



12-37 



6 



0-46 



1-05 



4*03 



— 



1-92 



7-91 



1*63 



— 



34-86 



22-71 



6*12 



4> 



— 



— 



— 



4 



— 



— 



— 



It may also be seen that the rainfall was much more heavy at Dar- 

 jeeling and Shillong than in June. At Darjeeling on the 11th nearly S 

 inches fell, more than double the total fall for the three preceding and 

 the three following days put together. At Cherrapoonjee 50 inches fell 

 on the 10th and 11th taken together. 



The only sensational incidents I have heard of in connection with 

 this later storm were landslips in the Hills and heavy flooding of the 

 rivers as the rainfall extended westward along the Himalayas. 



If a comparison be made of the two sets of Tables, it will be seen 

 that in many important respects the resemblance is as striking as two 

 sets of meteorological Tables could almost be expected to be. The wave 

 of pressure change in each case passed very rapidly, so much so that it 

 is difficult to show the line of advance by the sequence of changes. The 

 fall and the recovery were much greater in Western India in the latter 

 than in the former. In each case the fall of temperature can be traced 

 from East to West, but in the June storm the sequence is more complete 



