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JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



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Part II.— NATURAL SCIENCE. 

 No. II.— 1889.- 



VI. — The Tornadoes and Hailstorms of April and May 1888 in the Doah 

 and ItohilJcliand. — By S. A. Hill, B. Sc., Meteorological Reporter to 

 the Oovernment of the N.-W. Provinces and Oudh. 



[Received October 6tli j — Bead Novemlber 7th, 1888.] 

 (With Plates IV— IX.). 

 The early part of last hot weather was remarkable for the number 

 and severity of the atmospheric disturbances which occurred all over 

 Northern India. In the beginning of April the most violent disturbances 

 took place in Bengal, and chief amongst these was the tornado at 

 Dacca, an account of which has been published in this Journal (Vol. 

 LVII, Pt. II, p. 185) by Mr. Pedler and Dr. Crombie. At the end 

 of April and in the beginning of May there were several very destruc- 

 tive storms of a sinnlar character in Rohilkhand and the Upper Doab, 

 together with a number of less violent disturbances accompanied by 

 hail on the outer Himalayas. The peculiar and distinctive feature of 

 the three most important storms of this jDeriod was the extraordinarily 

 destructive character of the accompanying hail, which, owing either to 

 the immense size of the hailstones and the velocity with which they 

 fell, or to the great quantity of the hail and the low temperature it 

 caused, was most unusually fatal to human and animal life, as well an 

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