CHAPTER III. 

 CLIMATE. 



78. Meteorological .-laiimi.- in India* have to be placed where there 

 dready exists an agency capable of taking the instrumental readings — 

 • ■ ■ towns. They a 



except in a very gen . ! purposes. None e 



paired stations inside and outside the forests. More may < 

 be done in this way with the aid of the Forest Department 



form for our purposes. Published results are nearly always 

 but it is extremes that often have the largest bearing on veg 

 and such extremes, although not supported by figures, hav- 





es of some species, and 



3 drought, but, on account possibl 



drought. Such drough 

 s effects are not confine 



show for two to three years. .Means of 



.a in do not show that severs 

 in the north of our area, and more rarely most districts of the Central 

 tract, are subject to cold-weather frosts. Allied to climate in i 

 t-weather jungle fires, which have a very iniportai 



