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J. Eliot — The South-West Monsoon Storms 



[No. 2, 



winds at Cuttack. The Bombay branch of the monsoon current, it 

 may be added, was late in being established on the Bombay coast, and 

 was very feeble before the 20th of the month, when it rapidly in- 

 creased in force, as measured by the strength of the winds. 



The heavy rainfall attending the disturbance of the third week 

 of the month had drained the southerly monsoon winds advancing into 

 Bengal from the Bay of a very large portion of their moisture, and 

 weakened them for some days. This is shown by the diminution in 

 the amount of the rainfall and by the decreased velocity of the winds in 

 Bengal. 



The following table gives the average amount of the rainfall day 

 by day between the 13th and the 26th in the various divisions in 

 Bengal, and illustrates fully the general diminution in the rainfall 

 of every part of the Province after the 20th : — 



Table of Average Bainfall recorded in Bengal, June ISth to 26th 1883. 





OQ 



a 

 .o 































Province. 

































" 



6 



CO 

 I— 1 



I— 1 





CD 

 iH 



T— 1 



00 

 I— 1 



rd 

 rH 





1-1 







rd 

 1 



i 



4 

 ^ 



Orissa 



16 



0-64 



1-30 



0-23 



0-04 



0-25 



0-16 



0-30 



0-09 



Nil. 



0-37 



0-10 



0-43 



0-10 0-41 



1 



S. W. Bengal 



46 



0-31 



0-78 



0-42 



0-26 



0-27 



0-26 



1-02 



0-31 



0-66 



0-26 



0-45 



0-10 



0-18 



007 



East Bengal 



26 



0-18 



0-51 



1-62 



111 



0-86 



1-00 



1-48 



0-46 



0-82 



0-33 



0-17 



0-18 



0-16 



0-11 



North Bengal 



27 



0-09 



0-21 



0-91 



1-79 



1-71 



0-47 



1-23 



2-25 



0-97 



0-33 



0-72 



1-09 



0-98 



0-96 



North Behar 



16 



0-04 



0-12 



0-52 



1-86 



3-69 



1-36 



ri3 



1-21 



0-42 



0-42 



0-30 



0-07 



1-98 



0-89 



South Behar 



17 



0-29 



0-08 



1-40 



3-37 



1-99 



0-92 



0-35 



0-11 



0-04 



0-09 



0-38 



Nil. 



0-38 



0-77 



ChutiaNag-*^ 

































pore&Son- > 



16 0-39 



0-50 



2-04 



0-48 



0-21 



0-56 



0-63 



0-97 



0-15 0-37 



013 



Nil. 



019 0-35 



thai Perg. J 































The following table gives the daily amounts of wind for the same 

 period at^tlie chief Meteorological Stations in Orissa, Bengal, and Behar. 



