408 A Tiventy -fourth Memoir on the Laiv of Storms. [No. 5. 



Station of Cuttack: ; Extract from the Bombay Times. 



" CiUtach, 9th June, 1852. — I see by the " Bombay Times" that there 

 has been very extraordinary weather throughout almost the whole of 

 India. I can say for Cuttack this year that it has been the same here, 

 and every person who has known the place for some time, remarks that it 

 was quite unusual. We have had constant thunder-storms, attended with 

 frequent and heavy rains, and the Barometer has been constantly oscil- 

 lating, thus showing frequent breaks and irregularities in the upper 

 currents. The wind has always had a great deal of southing in it, and 

 has influenced the weather as to moistness accordingly. Damp hot winds 

 like those from a vapour-bath have been very prevalent, and tatties and 

 cooling the air are quite out of the question whilst these hold sway. The 

 vapour percentage for March, an unusually dry month generally speaking, 

 was as high this one as 64. We had consequently many days on which 

 there were thunder-storms, attended sometimes with slight, but frequently 

 with very heavy rain; the wind held firmly to the S. and S. S. W. 

 quarter, and the air was humid in the extreme. In April the air was 

 drier, the vapour percentage fell to 55, but in it there were many days of 

 rain, although it was never so heavy as in the last month. The winds 

 were Southward before. In May the vapour percentage for the first 

 10 days was 67.7- Mean of the Barometer, corrected for Tempera- 

 ture, and surface of Mercury in tube, but not for level, 29.584 ; Mean 

 of Thermometer 87.9 ; and rain in inches 1.83. For the second ten 

 days, the vapour percentage reached 70, Mean of Barometer 29.543, 

 of Thermometer, in K. N. E. verandah well protected from radiation 87.6. 

 For the whole month, Mean of Barometer 29.585, Thermometer 88.9, 

 Dew-point 74.1, Vapour percentage 62, rain in inches 3.25. The winds 

 were S. W. 57, West 2, South 18, S. East 21, North 2, N. East 21, N. 

 West 14, East 1, total 136. I mean by S. W. all winds that blow between 

 the points of S. and West. Thus giving 43 of East winds, 73 of West 

 winds, 37 of North winds, 96 of South. North winds are to South as 1 

 to 2.59, East to West as 1 to 1.6. The South being by far the most pre- 

 valent, may account for the extreme dampness of the air, in this month, as 

 also the formation of the Coast at Pooree where all winds between S. W. 

 and E. S. E. are from the sea, and damp. The Barometer was affected 

 here by the Cyclone which raged so furiously at Calcutta on the 14th and 

 15th May last. The atmosphere was much disturbed, and the whole 

 lower currents of air underwent a complete change, although the wind 

 from the Cyclone itself did not reach us in any strength. The sky was 

 overcast with drizzling rain until 4 p. m , and there was a most lurid and 



