New Delhi:
As monsoon rain ravaged the northeast, Cherrapunji in Meghalaya recorded a massive 811.6mm of rain in 24 hours ending at 8:30 am on Wednesday, the highest in June since 1995, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
Cherrapunji, one of the wettest places in the world, has recorded 10 times more than 750mm of rainfall in a June day since IMD began tracking records, the IMD data showed.
On June 16, 1995, the city, nestled in the East Khasi Hills, received 1563.3 mm of rain. The day before, on June 15, 1995, 930 mm of precipitation fell.
The Met office said the southwest monsoon extended into more parts of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and the coast of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday.
It said the ongoing bout of intense rainfall is likely to continue in northeastern and sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim for the next five days.
“Influenced by strong southwesterly winds from the Bay of Bengal at lower tropospheric levels and a trough to westerly directions at middle tropospheric levels, there is likely to be isolated extremely heavy rainfall over Arunachal Pradesh on June 15; over Assam and Meghalaya on June 15-16 and sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim until June 17,” it said.
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