121 mm: Second highest in a day

Mohit Khanna

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 27

At 121 mm, the Met Department today recorded the second highest rainfall of all time in the city in a day.  Seventeen years ago, in 2000, the city had witnessed 262 mm of rainfall in a day.

Till today this month, including July 13 when the Met Department had announced the arrival of the monsoon, only 38 mm of rainfall was recorded whereas the city recorded 121 mm of rainfall in a matter of four hours. 

Director, Chandigarh Met Centre, Surinder Paul said 135.7 mm of rainfall was recorded in June. “We were expecting rain on July 28, but it arrived a day earlier. There was heavy rain, but the situation was not alarming,” he said.

He said in 2009, 117 mm of rainfall was recorded in a single day while in 2010, 108 mm of rainfall had lashed the city in a single day. The weather was expected to remain the same till August 2. “In the second week of August, the monsoon will begin to recede and there will be scanty rain,” said Surinder Paul. 

According to the Met Department, the average rainfall in the monsoon should be around 310.4 mm. Met experts was there was a deficit of 16 per cent. In 2012, the city had witnessed 268 mm of rainfall in July while in 2013, 182.7 mm of rainfall was recorded and in 2014, 159.8 mm. In 2015, 257 mm of rainfall was recorded in July while in 2016, 131.1 mm of rainfall was witnessed. The maximum temperature recorded in the city today was 29.5°C while the minimum temperature was 28.9°C. The maximum relative humidity remained high and hovered around 97 per cent.