OBSERVATIONS TAKEN IN INDIA. 
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Wind at noon. 
N.W. 
S.W. 
S.E. 
N.E. 
1843. 
November 
26 
1 
0 
3 
December 
24 
0 
0 
5 
1844. 
January 
25 
0 
3 
3 
February 
23 
2 
0 
4 
March 
1 
20 
8 
0 
April 
0 
26 
3 
1 
May 
0 
24 
4 
3 
June 
5 
21 
3 
2 
July 
1 
17 
11 
1 
August 
1 
17 
13 
0 
September 
4 
19 
5 
2 
October 
4 
7 
6 
3 
Year 
114 
154 
56 
27 
As these observations are only for noon in each day of the year, they are of little 
value; supposing them however to be typical of the variations of the wind, there is 
a certain accordance with the winds at Madras and Bombay in the respective months 
of the year, with respect to the winds blowing between the points S. and W., and 
with Bombay in the winds blowing between the points N. and W., excepting that the 
latter cease to prevail in March in Calcutta, but do not relax in Bombay until June. 
The wnnds of the S.W. monsoon would appear to commence in March in Calcutta, 
but not until May in Bombay. The tendency of the N.W. and S.W. winds in Cal- 
cutta, however, is rather to blow, the former from the N. and the latter from the S., 
than from intermediate points ; out of 353 observations, the wind blew sixty-eight 
times from the N. and ninety-one times from the S., while the N.W. blew only thirty- 
four times and the S.W. wind only forty-two times. Judging from the Table, Cal- 
cutta is little affected by the winds of the N.E. monsoon. There is only a single in- 
stance of ‘^no wind ” at noon during the whole twelve months. 
The following Table shows the direction of the wind at six different hours, and 
the relative duration of each wind throughout the year: — 
N. 
N.W. 
w. 
S.W. 
s. 
S.E. 
E. 
N.E. 
Calm. 
No. of ob- 
servations. 1 
Sunrise 
32 
16 
7 
19 
68 
29 
25 
20 
137 
353 
9*' 50“a.m 
59 
29 
42 
49 
75 
34 
23 
37 
3 
351 
Noon 
58 
34 
53 
42 
90 
19 
29 
26 
1 
352 
2 ^ 40“p.m 
52 
40 
58 
27 
105 
20 
20 
24 
6 
352 I 
4^ P.M 
53 
42 
45 
36 
93 
34 
31 
12 
6 
352 
Sunset 
56 
18 
11 
23 
116 
23 
17 
9 
78 
341 
Total 
310 
179 
216 
190 
536 
150 
145 
118 
231 
2101 
Proportion of each 
51-6 
29-8 
36 
32-6 
89-3 
26-5 
24*1 
19*6 
38*5 
350 1 
From this Table the S.W. monsoon, which at Bombay has a disposition chiefly to 
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