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J. Eliot — The Soutli-Wcst Monsoon S forms 



[No. 2, 



usiially dry for the season. The sky was clouded on the Madras coast, 

 but rain had now ceased to fall, as is shewn by the data given in the table 

 on p. 130. The winds on the Madras coast were approximately normal 

 in direction, varying between N. and N. N. W., but were unusually weak. 

 Hence the effect of the deflexion of the south-west monsoon cur- 

 rent from its usual course at this time, which had been previously indi- 

 cated by the light winds experienced by the Mount Stuart and Scottish 

 Hill to the west of the Andamans, had now extended across the centre of 

 the Bay to the Coromandel coast, over the whole of which area light 

 unsteady winds were blowing. Pressure was very uniform round the 

 north and west coasts of the Bay, as is shown by the following : — 



Saugor Island 29*929 



False Point 29-951 



Yizagapatam 29*957 



Madras 29960 



The following table gives the observations at the land stations for 

 the day • — 



Stations. 



o q 



<D t-i o 

 P • CD 





Wind direction. 



10 A. M. 



4 P. M. 



O <U O f3 





O 

 O 1-H 



O 50 



— ' c 



P3 



Weather. 



Nancowry .... 

 Port Blair..., 

 Diamond Island' 

 Chittagong 

 Tounghoo ... 



Bassein 



Rangoon . . . 

 Monlmein . . . 

 Mergui 



29-856 



29-850 



29-917 



29-915 



29-905? 



29-917 



29-920 



29-871 



29-868? 



•041 



•044 



•017 



•006 



•032? 



•007 



•022 



•027 



•127? 



s. w. 



N.N.W. 

 E. S.E. 

 N. 



N. W. 



N. E. 



N. E. 

 E.N. E. 

 E. S. E 



S. W. 



W.N.W. 



E.S.E. 



N. W. 



N. W. 



s. s. 



E.S.E 

 S.E. 

 E. 



8 

 7 

 12 

 1 

 ? 

 4 

 4 

 2 

 1 



116 

 0-30 

 0-65 



0-22 

 0-18 

 0-85 



0-65 



Showery. 



Gloomy. 



Gloomy. 



Fine. 



Gloomy. 



Overcast. 



Showery. 



Showery 



Gloomy. 



The preceding observations establish that a considerable fall of 

 the barometer had taken place during the previous 24 hours. The fall 

 amounted to '04" at Nancowry and Port Blair, -03" at Moulmein, and 

 •02" at Rangoon, and was greatest at Port Blair. "Westerly winds 

 of the same average strength as on the 9th had prevailed during the 



