was the only occasion on which it was necessary to hoist the -storm signals at the Saugor Island station near the entrance to the Hooghly The second storm was formed in the Gulf of Martaban during the second week of November almost at the end of the south-west monsoon and pursued a very unusual eonrse. [...] The following table gives the average amount of the rainfall day by day between the 13th and the 26th in the various divisions in Bengal and illustrates fully the general diminution in the rainfall of every part of the Province after the 20th :— Table of Average Rainfall recorded in Bengal June 13th to 26th 1883. [...] 61 The account of the storm of the last week of June hence begins with the 25th of June the thy before which there were any indications of the actual formation of an atmospheric whirl (it the Head of the Bay. [...] The general restIlt of the changes of pressure since the dispersion of the disturbance of the third week of the month had been to give a high barometer which culminated on the moring of the 25th in excessively high readings. [...] Probably the light green sky to the east noted by the Captain of the British Princess was another sign of the large amount of moisture brought up by the southerly winds in the East of the Bay.
- Pages
- 136
- Published in
- India
- SARF Document ID
- sarf.120250
