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puffs and more rain from North and N. E. ; at 10, Bar. falling to 29.50 ; Ther. 

 86° ; puffy throughout the night, with lulls at times and Barometer falling till 

 5 a.m.; the 27th, when the breeze increased on the flood to a smart gale, 

 Bar. 28.90 ; at 6 a. m. wind N. b. W. blowing hard with heavy rain and flying 

 clouds with sheets of rain in the heavy gusts ; at 7 a. m. Bar. 28.80. Gale 

 increasing and veering gradually Westerly to N. W.; at 8 a. m. Bar. 28.75; 

 blowing harder, in puffs like the sound of thunder, heavy sheets of rain and 

 passing heavy clouds with squalls from the W. N. W. Bar. at 8 £ a. m. 28 69 ; 

 where it remained till 9 a. m. with the wind at West sweeping away the largest 

 trees and the thatches of all the houses in the very heavy gusts ; the wind roaring ; 

 at % past 9, the Bar. began to rise being 28.73 ; the wind W T . S. W. (though 

 puffy and heavy at times) and decreasing, and the clouds began to separate, indi- 

 cating a breaking up of the storm, Bar. rising till 10 a. m. when the Bar. rose 

 to 29.1 and continued to rise till 11 a.m. when it stood at 29.60; and the wind 

 entirely lulled at that hour. 



The ship Atalantu, Captain Farley left our port, Chooramun, April the 25th, 

 bound to Madras two days before the gale with a cargo of rice having a light 

 Northerly breeze. 



This gale was the heaviest experienced since 1832 at Balasore, but not so 

 severe as in 1832. Two vessels at Chooramun laden with paddy are ashore, and 

 in this gale the Bulramgurry Flag staff was blown down. 



State of Bar. with winds and weather up to the 27th April, 1850. 



Bar. 





Bar. 



Ther. 



29.80 



P. M. 



29.70 



85° 



29.76 



)> 



29.70 



85o 



29.75 



» 



29.60 



82° 



28.69 



J> 



29.65 



78° 



24th April, a. m. 29.80 p. m. 29.70 85° Wind N. W. to N. E. 



cloudy with a few drops of 

 rain. 

 29.76 „ 29.70 85<> N. W. to N. E. fine breeze 



and cloudy, with thunder and 

 lightning. 



N. W. to N. E. cloudy and 

 muggy with a few drops of 

 rain and flashes of lightning. 

 28.69 „ 29.65 78° Squalls a N. E. from 3 



p. m. yesterday, a strong heavy 

 gale from N. E. to W. b. S. 

 with heavy rain from 5 a. m. to 10 a. m. in squalls ; complete sheets of rain and 

 very heavy gusts ; towards high water wind veering gradually to the West- 

 ward. High water at Bulramgurry (Seaward) I to 10 a. m. 



N. E. to E. 

 heavy gale. 



Force and direction of Gale. 



g ["40 miles N. b. E. of Balasore, gale heavy 



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50 miles N. E. of Balasore, gale very heavy. 

 35 miles E. N. E. of ditto ditto. 



