[STORMREPORTS] Fwd: Indian Rainfall NOT a National Record
Chris Burt is the author of Extreme Weather
>There have been a lot of stories about the 37" of rain in Bombay two days
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From: WeatherMatrix Admin (admin{at}weathermatrix.com)
Date: Thu Jul 28 2005 - 09:36:08 EDT
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>ago, most of which said this was a national record. Phenomenal as the
>rainfall was, there have been, in fact, at least four greater ones:
>
>Cherrapunji, Assam 41.6" 6/14/1876
>Jowai, Meghalaya 40.8" 9/11/1877
>Dharampur, Gujarat 39.6" 7/2/1941
>Mawasynram, Meghalaya 39.6" 7/10/1952
>
>All of these records are well documented by the Indian Institute of
>Tropical Meteorology at Pune. The British during the colonial era and the
>Indians since have been assiduous record keepers. The non-fact of Bombay's
>"record national rainfall' is no more than an exuberant exaggeration in
>the local media, horrific though the flooding disaster is.
>
>Chris Burt
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