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LIEUT.-COLONEL SYKES’S DISCUSSION OF METEOROLOGICAL 
affords the precarious and scanty supply to the lands to the eastward, which the 
Tables show. 
Maximum Daily Rain-Fall. 
As might be looked for, the greatest fall of rain in any one day is met with in the 
records of those stations where there is the greatest annual fall, Mahabuleshwur and 
littray Mullay. At the former station the greatest fall in any one day in fifteen 
years was 13*06 inches on the 2nd of September 1833, but the months of June, July 
and August, have numerous instances of a daily fall of 11*32 inches, 12*76 inches, 
and 12*69 inches in those months respectively. The greatest monthly fall at Maha- 
buleshwur was 134*42 inches in July 1840. At Uttray Mullay the greatest daily fall 
in three years was 15*1 inches on the 14th of October 1845. On the 11th of De- 
cember of the same year there was a fall in one day of 11*4 inches, and on the 9th of 
October 1844 the fall in one day was 9*0 inches. In 1846 there was not a daily fall 
approaching these figures. In Bombay, in 1845, the greatest daily fall was 4*71 inches 
on the 24th of July, and the next year, on the 16th of July, a daily fall occurred of 
5*16 inches; but Dr. Buist mentions that on the 1st of July 1844 there was a fall of 
rain in twenty-four hours of 7*44 inches, two inches having fallen in seventy minutes; 
but this was on the first burst of the monsoon, which set in later than usual by three 
weeks. On the 10th of July, however, 9*43 inches fell, the greatest of the year. In 
the Deccan there is rarely a greater daily fall than two inches, but in the Sattarah 
records a maximum daily fall of 4*40 inches in four years is stated to have occurred 
in April ; but this was in one of the squalls which are the precursors of the monsoon. 
Annexed is a comparison of the fall of rain in Bombay and at Mahabuleshwur for 
many years. 
