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The late Storm at Calcutta, 



TO THE EDITOR OP THE BOMBAY TIMES. 



Sir, — Mr. Piddington of Calcutta being very anxious, it appears, to 

 obtain all the information he can, relative to the state of the weather 

 in all parts of India, about the period of the recent storm, I beg to 

 furnish him, through your journal, with the following notes from my 

 Weather-Book, and only regret that they are not more detailed: — 



State of the weather at Chowpatty, (3 miles from the fort of Bom- 

 bay,) from the 1st to the 6th of June 1842. 



1*/. June Morning, sky overcast ; temperature very sultry ; wind, 



N. W. — Day cloudy and hot.— Evening, sky overcast ; sultry ; wind 

 N. W. 



2nd June — Morning, sky overcast ; wind N. W. — Day very hot 

 and oppressive; hazy and cloudy. Thermometer 90° at 12 o'clock. 

 — Evening, sky overcast ; black and lowering appearance in the S. W. 

 quarter; wind blowing strongly from N. W. 



3rd June. — Morning, sky overcast; wind N. W. — Day hot, cloudy 

 and hazy. — Evening, sky overcast; wind N. W. — A heavy shower 

 of rain fell in the fort district last night. 



4th June. — Morning, sky overcast; a slight shower of rain after 

 5 o'clock ; wind N. W — Day hot, cloudy and hazy.— Evening, cloudy ; 

 wind N. E. temperature very sultry; a few small showers of rain. 

 Some rain fell last night. 



5th June. — Morning, sky overcast; sultry ; wind N. W. — Day hot 

 and cloudy, with a thin haze ; a few showers of rain. — Evening, cloudy 

 and very sultry ; wind N. E. 



6th June. — Morning, sky overcast; sultry; a little rain; wind 

 easterly — Day, very hot. Thermometer 92 degrees at 2 o'clock. — 

 Evening, cloudy ; fine showers of rain ; temperature oppressively close 

 and sultry; wind N. W. 



The most remarkable change observed by me during the above 

 period, was that of the wind, which was North-westerly during the 

 mornings, till the 5th ; when it veered to the East — its usual direction 

 at that time of the day ; and this circumstance, as well as its blowing 



