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A Practical Guide to the Climates and Weather of India Ceylon and Burmah and the Storms of Indian Seas (Based Chiefly on the Publications of the Indian Meteorological Department)

1889

In the first part the intensity of the sun's heat in India the air temperature humidity cloud winds and rainfall together with the principal variations they present in diffeent parts of the Empire and the changes they undergo in the course of the year the behaviour of the barometer and the methods of interpreting and utilising its teachings and the constitution and nature of storms ar [...] And it may be concluded that the temperature readings of the sun thermometer which show the temperture of the air plus the direct heating effect of the sun notwithstanding the artificial and purely conventional chaacter of the arrangements for determining them probably afford a better criterion of the stress imposed on the animal system than do the figures expressive of the sun's heating [...] In Sind the Punjab the region west of the Aravalis and also on the plain north of the Ganges where the rains seldom set in much before the latter part or quite at the end of June or where they are too light and scanty to mitigate the heat June is warmer than May; and at the more remote stations of Quetta and Leh the temperature goes on rising till July as is generally the case in the temp [...] In Burmah as in Assam this is due to the greater abundance of the May showers and to the earlier setting in of the monsoon rains ; but in the southern provinces the changes of temperature are smaller and in the Carnatic it is not until the October raifall has cooled the plains and filled the irrigation tanks that there is any considerable mitigation of the heat. [...] Towards the close of the season in September the raibearing wind ceases to penetrate to North-western India and is directed rather towards the north-east of the peninsula and the adjacent portion of the Bay of Bengal ; the winds of Bengal become more easterly and those of the northern provinces of the peninsula more northerly.
agriculture environment
Pages
382
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.145505
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xiii Henry Blanford view
Part I. Elements of Climate and Weather
1-92 Henry Blanford view
Part II. Climates and Weather of India in Relation to Health and Industry
93-288 Henry Blanford view
Appendices
289-364 Henry Blanford view
Index
365-369 Henry Blanford view

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