334 H. F. Blanford — Catalogue of Cyclones in the Bay of Bengal. [No. 4, 



No. 



XLIV 



XLV 

 XLVI 



XLYII 



XLVIII 



Month. 



1840 



1840 

 1841 



1842 



1842 



May 



Nov. 

 May 



May 

 June 



Oct. 



Days. 



Details of Storm. 



XLIX 1842 Oct. 



Nov. 



LI 



LII 

 LIII 



1843 



1843 



1844 

 1844 



May 



Nov. 

 Dec. 



May 



Aug. 



21st. 

 16th. 



31st to 

 5th 



2nd to 

 5th. 



22ndto 

 1st. 



Autho- 

 rity. 



19th to 

 23rd. 



28th to 

 2nd 



11th. 

 21st. 



Hurricane off Madras and South- 

 ern coast. 



To the NE of Andamans. 



From the SW of the Anda- 

 mans to Madras. A lull in the 

 middle of the storm at Madras ' 

 Bar. 29-069. 



Great Calcutta cyclone on Srd 

 June. " The most severe gale 

 ever felt at Calcutta." Bar. 

 28-278. Centre passed over 

 the city. 



Across the north of the Bay, in 

 a NW direction to Cuttack. 

 Also felt at Gya and Patna on 

 the 6th. 



From the Andamans westward 

 to Pondicherry and across In- 

 dia to the Ai*abian Sea. Thence 

 westward to E. Long. 60* a 

 total course of 2000 miles. 

 Average rate of travelling 12*4 

 miles per hour across the bay, 

 and 5*6 miles afterwards. 



Prom South of bay, NW to 

 Ongole. Bar. at Masulipatam 

 28-73. The place inundated 

 by the sea. Bar. at Bombay 

 fell 0-2 from 18th to 23rd. 



From N. lat. 6° E. long. 90° in 

 NW direction. Did not reach 

 land. Another storm simul- 

 taneously in lat. 7° — 8° and same 

 long, south of the equator. 



Noakhally and Chittagong. 

 Blowing a gale at Calcutta from 

 9 p. M. to the following morn- 

 ing. More than 12 ins. of 

 rain fell. Bar. at sunset, be- 

 fore the gale 29*350. [Not 

 mentioned by Piddington but 

 appears to have been a cyclone. 

 H. F. B.] 



B.I. 



P. 



II. 



p. 



V. 



G. 



&T. 



B. 



I. 



P 



VIII. T. 



SGMA. 



B. 



I. 



P 



IS. 



B. 



I. 



P 



YIII. 



B 



I. 



Px. 



Pxi, 



Pxii. 

 T. 



SGMA. 



