16 E. Loomis— Contributions to Meteorology. 
Koner, stands for Koner’s Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft fiir Erd- 
ku nde zu Berlin; Q. J. Met. Soc., stands for Quarterly Journal 
of the London Meteorological Society ; Zeitschrift, stands for 
Zeitschrift der say ae ee Gesellschaft fiir Meteorologie ; 
An. Met. de France, stands for Annuaire Meteorologique de la 
France ; Dove Beitriige, pein for Klimatologische Beitrige — 
von H. W. Dove, 1857; Schott’s tables, stands for Tables of 
the precipitation in rain and snow in the United States, by 
Charles A. Schott, 1872; Repertorium fiir Met., stands pe 
Pera fiir Me teorologie, Band L., redijirt von Dr. Hei 
rich Wild, St. Petersburg; Met. Annalen, stands for Anuaten 
der Physikalischen central Observatoriums, St. Petersburg; 
ol. Geog., stands for Boletin de la Sociedad de Geogratia y 
Estadistica de la Republica Mexicana; Revista Clim., stands for 
Revista mensual Climatologica. 
Cases of excessive rain-fall. 
The rain-fall at Cherapunji (No. 1), is very much greater 
than at any other known station, and nearly all of this rain 
ce during the warmer months of the year. In the following 
able, column second shows the average rain-fall at Cherapunji 
ne each month of the year; column third shows the average 
direction of the wind at Calcutta, and column fourth shows its 
average direction at Chittagong, situated at the head of the 
Bay of Bengal: 
Rain Rain ds 
eae Ontnette: Giataetur. | a Galnare cnittagong- 
Jan 0:73 | N. 38° W.| N. 26° W W.|| July 13364 —°S. 11°-B,:| .8. 42° Bees 
Feb 276 | S. 81 N.40 W.||Aug.| 7731 | S.17 E.| 8.31 E. 
r 705 | 8.32 W.) S60 W./|Sept.| 58°01] S.27 E.} S27 EB 
April} 30°63 | S..3 W.) 8.13 W.]| Oct. — N.48 W.| N.19 W. 
a 51:09 | S11 E.| 8S. 7 Wi Nov. N.17 W.| N.19. W- 
June| 114°70 | S. 4 E.| 8.30 E. |} Dec. be N.26 W.| N. 24 W. 
Thus we see that ninety-five per cent of the annual rain at 
Cherapunji falls during the six months from April to aire 
ber, inclusive; and during these months the average wind a 
Caleutta and Chittagong i is from the south, while during snout 
of the other six months of the year the average wind is from 
the northwest. 
Cherapunji is situated on the Khasi Hills, 200 miles north of 
Chittagong, and at an elevation of 4125 feet above the sea. 
When the iu in the Bay of Bengal en _ the south, 
rain falls almost incessantly on the Khasi ills ; when the 
wind changes to the west or northwest, the rain tees almost 
entirely. These facts indicate that the rainfall is due to an 
upward deflection of the winds as they encounter a range of 
SO LE Oe eed eel WS 
MR ee Sue Re SE ON. mm, 
