‘REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1919-20’ [‎275v] (98/192)

BOMBAY ADMINISTRATION BEPOET.
the west of the United Provinces, south Rajputana and Gujarat at th
of the Peninsula. This was due to a series of disturbances, of which th fi ^ 86
fifth were the most important so far as weather in the Bombay Preside St ^
concerned. The first crossed the Orissa coast on the morning of the fiV**
after travelling in a northwesterly direction disappeared over Rajputana a
4th. It determined very heavy rain in north Gujarat and south Rajputaru u ® e
receiving IT' in the 24 hours ending with 8 a.m. of the 4th and Mount a?
23" during the 3 rd and 4th. The fifth formed over Central India East a
22 nd and travelling westwards disappeared over Sind on the 26 th C air
heavy rain along its-track. At Hoshangabad nearly 12" fell on the Wd S
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at Mount Abu 11" on the 23rd. The second and the sixth disturb
travelled from the head of the Bay into the United Provinces and the former
some heavy rain in the north of the Central Provinces, Central India East anS
the United Provinces, but the latter was comparatively shallow and did not caus^
any marked concentration of rainfall. Rainfall due to the third and fourth
disturbances which were feeble also occurred in the central parts of the country
but no heavy falls were recorded. The total rainfall of the month was nearly
normal in the Konkan (+ 5 per cent.) and the Bombay Deccan (-1 percent)
and was considerably above normal in Gujarat (+76 per cent.) and Kathiawar
(+ 61 per cent.) while in Sind it was in defect by 47 per cent. At the beginning
of September the monsoon was chiefly directed to northwest India and the
United Provinces, but it weakened during the course of the first week and
hardly any rain fell in northwest India after the 4th and in the United and
the Central Provinces after the 7 th. There was almost a complete cessation
in its activity except for some local rain in the Bombay and the Madras Deccan
during the second week. The monsoon strengthened after the 15th and during
the remainder of the month there was nearly general rain in the Bombay
Deccan and Hyderabad with an extension during the first few days into
Gujarat, Kathiawar and the Central Provinces, while after the 25th there was
widespread rain over nearly the whole of the Peninsula. The total rainfall of
the month thus exceeded the normal by 61 per cent, in the Bombay Deccan; but
was in defect over the rest of the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. , the deficiency amounting to
per cent, in the Konkan, 39 per cent, in Gujarat and 53 per cent, in Kathiawar,
while Sind was entirely rainless. The aggregate rainfall of the monsoon
season—June to September—was normal in the Konkan and below normal by
22 per cent, in Kathiawar. It was in slight excess elsewhere, by 5 per cent, in
Gujarat, 10 per cent, in Sind and 11 per cent, in the Bombay Deccan. During
the first three days of October there was widespread and in places heavy rain
fall on the west coast, in the Bombay Deccan, the west of the Central Provinces
and in the southern districts of Gujarat and Kathiawar in connection with a
shallow depression oft the Konkan coast. With its disappearance on the 3rd
the activity of the monsoon decreased and by the beginning of the second wee’
rainfall had almost disappeared from the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. . Except for some rain
between the 14th and the 16th in the southern districts of the Konkan an e
Bombay Deccan, rainfall was during the next fortnight chiefly cor ++ 0
south of the Peninsula. A depression from the Bay which travelled towar s
the Central Provinces brought some rain to that area on the 23rd and l
there was a short re-appearance of rainfall in the Konkan and the om aj
Deccan on the 26th and 27th. The total rainfall of the month was in e
by 19 per cent, in the Bombay Deccan, but was in excess in the Konkan, uj )
and Kathiawar by 39 per cent,, 56 per cent, and 50 per cent, respective y. ^
rain was recorded in Sind during the month. During the month oi ^
the monsoon was much more active than usual in the Bombay Presi , ce
the influence of two depressions which formed in the Bay and one is
which appeared off the north Konkan Coast. The first depression
developed into a storm near Negapatam on the 1st and crossing t e ^
was situated 200 miles to the west of Mangalore on the morning o ^
It gave some rain to the Konkan and the Bombay Deccan on tiie AU cons ider-
It was of moderate intensity when it crossed the coast, but intensi e ^
ably during its passage across the Arabian Sea towards the Kuna u j. 0
where it probably disappeared on the 8th. S.S. Zayani boon r °i o j!. at
Bombay encountered the storm in latitude 17° N. and longi U 0
noon on the 5th and experienced hurricane winds and mountamou