Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1876 — Remarkable Rainfalls. [ARTICLE]

Remarkable Rainfalls.

Mr. J. Puckle writes to Nature that he once registered at 'Bangalore, in the Mysore Province, in India, an inch and a quarter of rain that fell in twenty minutes, lie also states that seven and eight and even more inches have been gauged in that district in &r«in of twenty-four hours. About the year 1856, yhen particularly disastrous floods occurred in India, Mr. Puckle declares that, at Madras, more than twemy-ikree inches of rain fell in twentyfour hours! and that more than seven inches fell within six hours. This was gauged at the Madras Observatory, and registered every hour. “A coffee-planter on the IV estern Ghauts of Mysore,” continues Mr. Puckle, “told me that, at Hoolikul, he had gauged in August, 1874, thirteen and three-quarters inches in one day and ten and one quarter the next. He described it as, a sullen, intermittent, continuous downpour, the monotony of which was very depressing. At ‘Mahablesbwar, on the same line of Ghauts, the average fall is 240 inches, chiefly in the four or five months from May to September inclusive; while at the Cherrapoorji Hills, not very far from Calcutta, the average fall is over 600 inches, or (say) seventeen yards of rain!” The Samoans have no faith in a man who is not a good smoker. h