JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



Part II.— NATURAL SCIENCE. 



No. II.— 1884. 



III. — Account of the South-West Monsoon Storms of the 26th June to 

 4ith July and of 10th to Ibth November 1883. — By John Eliot 

 M. A., Meteorological Reporter to the Government of Bengal. 



[Received June 4tli ; — Read July 2nd, 1884,] 



(With Plates II— X.) 



CHAPTER I. 



Inteoduction. 



' It is proposed in the following paper to give an account of the 

 two most important and remarkable storms that occurred in the Bay of 

 Bengal during the year 1883. The first storm was generated during 

 the last week of June neac the Head of the Bay and gave very stormy 

 Weather off the Bengal pind Orissa coasts, and was the only occasion on 

 which it was necessary to hoist the storm signals at the Saugor Island 

 station near the entrance to the Hooghly. The second storm was formed 

 in the Gulf of Martaban during the second week of November, almost at 

 the end of the south-west monsoon, and pursued a very unusual course. 

 It crossed into the Bay of Bengal through the channel between Cape 

 Negrais and the Andaman Islands. It then slightly recurved and moved 

 in a general northward direction, approaching the Arracan coast near 

 Akyab, where it was broken up by the action of the Arracan Hills. 

 8 



