1903.] 



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These tables show very clearly the westward movement of the second 

 stage of the disturbance, that is, of the stage where with the rising pres- 

 sure the northerly or north-easterly winds commence in the upper atmo- 

 sphere accompanied by general thunderstorms, rainfall, and low tempera- 

 ture. The greatest change in Assam is on the 10th, in North Bengal 

 and Bihar on the 11th, and in the United Provinces between the 11th 

 and 13th. In the United Provinces the mean difference from normal 

 temperature changed from excess of 14° on the 10th to defect of 1° on 

 the 13th, and in the Punjab from excess of 15° on the 11th to excess of 

 3° on the 13th. At Srinagar the fall was from excess of 3° on the 11th 

 to defect of 10° on the 13th. 



Table IX. 



Rainfall (July 1th to 13th, 1903). 





No. of 



Sta- 

 tions. 



July 

 7th 



July 

 8th 



July 

 9th 



July 

 10th 



July 

 11th 



July 



12th 



Jnly 

 13th 



Assam 



5 



131 



167 



2-81 



759 



319 



2-86 



1-17 



North Bengal ... 



7 



3-28 



2'86 



7-57 



1372 



12*52 



5-68 



0*41 



East Bengal 



7 



4*54 



181 



2-78 



7-94 



1-87 



1-53 



301 



S.W. Bengal ... 



9 



o-io 



2-78 



074 



096 



10-48 



Nil. 



1-76 



Bihar 



13 



014 



0-79 



042 



1-18 



692 



300 



5*45 



United Provinces 



12 



023 



015 



Nil. 



010 



1-36 



3'02 



4-36 



Punjab 



6 



005 



Nil. 



Nil. 



Nil. 



Nil. 



009 



0-55 



Simla Hills 



5 



Nil. 



Nil. 



Nil. 



Nil. 



Nil. 



036 



523 



Kashmir 



6 



0-09 



9 



? 



Nil. 



003 



209 



1-49 



Darjeeling 



... 



1-29 



0-66 



32 



0-42 



0-80 



002 



mi. 



Cherrapoonjee ... 





3-03 



11-36 



24-20 



21-33 



006 



Nil. 



Nil. 



Orissa 



4 



0*02 



Nil. 



Nil. 



Nil. 



1-68 



1-85 



221 



Circars 



4 



Nil. 



325 



1-74 



Nil. 



0-38 



521 



561 



The rainfall in the above table has been prepared as in the previous 

 paper referred to above. The figures give the total fall in each divi- 

 sion or Province, and the number of stations is given in the first column. 

 The average fall may be obtained by division. It may be seen that 

 rainfall was increasing in Assam and North Bengal from about the 7th, 

 that it was most heavy in those parts on the 9th and 10th, and that 



