ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the meteorological geography of the country. The great peninsula of India, with its lofty mountain ranges and its extensive seaboard, exposed to the first violence of the winds of two oceans, forms an exceptionally valuable and interesting field for the study of meteorological phenomena. A meteorological peculiarity of some interest has been noticed, more especially at the stations of Sibsagar and Silchdr, viz the great range of the diurnal variation of barometric pressure, particularly during the cool months of the year. In a meteorological point of view, the central chain of hills is of much importance. Acting together with the two parallel valleys of the Narbada and Tapti, it gives a more decided easterly and westerly direction to the winds of this part of India, and condenses a tolerably copious rainfall during the south-west moonsoon. At Ajmere, an old-established meteorological station at the eastern foot of the range, the wind is predominantly south-west.
