APPENDIX A

October	Variable wind and weather; water-spouts.
November	The first half of the month the same as October, afterwards N.E. monsoon and little rain. A cyclone is almost certain to occur in November.
December	Fresh N.E. monsoon; fairly cool.
January	Cool and pleasant; N.E. winds; nights sometimes foggy.
February	Cool and pleasant; very clear; light airs.
March	Hot by day, cool nights, light airs; occasional haze.
April	Very hot; calm and hazy.
May	S.W. monsoon sets in about the 15th.
June	S.W. monsoon; cool, squally.
July August	} Do. do. do.
September	Rain every day, S.W. winds.
—Bay of Bengal Pilot, 1892.