1903.] C. Little — On tivo remarkable rain-hunts in Bengal. 



Table X (b) 



- Rainfall. 



45 





No. of 



Stations 



Before 

 11th August 



Htli August. 



After 

 11th August, 



Assam ... ... ... 



5 



29 08 



12-40 



16-05 



North Bengal 



7 



2086 



29*43 



15*83 



East Bengal 



7 



iro4 



2871 



14*22 



South-west Bengal ... 



9 



5-05 



lo'll 



3'46 



Bihar 



13 



13-54 



12'94 



846 



United Provinces 



12 



14-39 



1-32 



033 



Punjaub ... 



6 



O-Oo 



1-31 



2*13 



Simla Hills 



5 



8-46 



1 



206 



12-37 



Kashmir 



! 



6 



0-46 



1'05 



1-03 



Darjeeling ... ... ; 



_ j 



1-92 



791 



1-63 



Cherrapoonjee ... ... j 



— 



34*86 



22-71 



6*12 



Orissa ... ... ... i 



4 



— 



— 



— 



Circara ... ... ... 



4 



1 



- 1 



— 



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

 jeeling and Shillong than in June. At Darjeeling on the Uth nearly 8 

 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 



