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J. Eliot — The South-West Monsoon Storms 



[No. 2, 



reduced to sea level and for temperature, at the more important meteoro- 

 logical stations around the Bay : — 



Stations. 



Barometer 



at 10 A. M. 



reduced to 



sea level. 



Stations. 



Barometer 



at 10 A. M. 



reduced to 



sea level. 



Saugor Island 



False Point 



Gopaulpore 



Vizagapatam 



30-028 

 30-028 

 30-016 

 30-014 

 30-013 

 29-948 

 29-951 



Chittagong 



Akyab 



Diamond Island 



Port Blair 



29-994 

 29-975 

 29-970 

 29-945 



Madras 



Negupatam 



Nancowry 



Moulmein 



Rangoon 



29-943 



29-958 



Trincomalee 



30-004(?) 

 29-956 





MersTui 









The gradients over the Bay were normal in character, pressure de- 

 creasing from north to south. The total barometric difference was 

 slightly less than nine-hundreths of an inch. The average barometric 

 difference between the north and south of the Bay in the middle of 

 November is '075''. The distribution of pressure over the Bay on the 7th 

 was very approximately normal. 



Over the greater part of India, including the whole of Northern and 

 Central India and the North Deccan, the weather was fine and skies 

 clear. These were clouded in Southern India, more especially on the 

 Coromandel coast, where they were generally overcast. Over the 

 whole of the Indian land area, winds were normal in direction. North- 

 westerly to westerly winds prevailed over the greater part of the Gangetic 

 plain, and northerly winds in the Gangetic Delta. Along and near 

 the Coromandel coast, north-easterly humid winds were giving mode- 

 rate showers of rain. In Burmah, winds varying between east and 

 north-east prevailed. The weather in every part of the Indian area, so 

 far as can be judged from the land observations, was of the usual No- 

 vember, or cold weather, type. There were no signs of the existence of 

 any atmospheric disturbance either in the land or adjacent sea area. 



The only indications of the probable early occurrence of stormy 

 weather in the Bay were the lightness and variability of the winds 

 over the centre and south of the Bay, and the rapid and steady decrease 

 in the rainfall of the Madras Presidency. 



