1884.] 



of the Bay of Bengal in 1883. 



123 



It is not possible to give similar details for Central India and the 

 northern districts of the Bombay Presidency. The following table gives 

 the rainfall at the nearest meteorological observatories to the north and 

 south of the path of the centre, and a glance will show that there was the 

 same marked contrast between the rainfall in the northern and southern 

 portions of the storm area during the latter part of its course, when it 

 was approaching the Arabian Sea. 



Meteorological sta- ^^^^j ^^j^^^jj 

 tions north oi path 

 of centre. 



July 1st to 4th. 



Meteorological sta- 

 tions south of path 

 of centre. 



Total rainfall 



July 1st to 



4th. 



Indore 



Neemuch . . 



Deesa 



Ajmere 



Hyderabad 

 Kurrachee 



1-92 

 116 

 2-61 

 0-53 

 0-38 

 2-00 



Surat 



Ahmedabad 

 Malegaon .. 



Bombay 



Rajkot 



Bhnj 



5-80 

 5-43 

 4-17 

 1-09 

 10-58 

 5-82 



The previous peculiarities to a certain extent explain the striking 

 contrast between the force of the wind in different quadrants, more espe- 

 cially when the storm was advancing over the sea or low ground. This 

 has already been briefly referred to in the account of the meteorology 

 of the present storm on the 28th and 29th (vide pages 86 and 93). It 

 was there shown that the Pemba, at a distance of at least 200 miles to 

 the south-east of the centre, had strong south-westerly winds of average 

 force 9, which were frequently interrupted by excessively violent squalls ; 

 and that the ships and light- vessels, so long as they were in the wes- 

 tern and northern quadrants, had winds from directions between N. W. 

 and N. E. varying in force from 1 to 5, but that, when they passed in 

 to the opposite quadrants, they experienced very violent westerly or 

 south-westerly winds of force varying from 9 to 11. 



This feature is shewn most strikingly by the anemometric observa- 

 tions taken at Saugor Island during the storm, which have been referred 

 to in page 95, but are now given in full in illustration of this feature : — 



