Sunday, June 30, 2013

Dehradun beats 88 year old 24hrs rainfall for June with 220 mm rainfall and betters again with 370 mm rainfall

It was three days continuous rain in Uttrakhand which created the historic floods and not cloudburst as termed by media. Hope they come to their senses while posting these terms.


Uttrakhand June 2013 - 3 day Rainfall amount in CM


Source: http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/

The 88 year old Dehradun record of 24hr rainfall in the month of June was broken with 219.9 mm on 16th June 2013. It was record which was to be short lived. The next day (17th June 2013) Dehradun clocked 370.2 mm of heavy rainfall. The previous record was on 22nd June 1925 that Dehradun where it had received 188 mm of rainfall on a single day in the month of June.

Some of the relevant rainfall records of Dehradun with respect to June 2013 historic rains

24 hrs Rainfall (All months)
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25th July 1966 - 487 mm (All time high for Dehradun for any month)
17th June 2013 - 370.2 mm  (Second highest for any month was broken)
31st July 2010 - 364 mm
22nd August 1951 - 332.2 mm

24hrs Rainfall (June)
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17th June 2013 - 370.2 mm (The next day the record was again broken)
16th June 2013 -  219.9 mm (Broke 88 year old record)
22nd June 1925 - 188 mm

Monthly Rainfall (June)
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1966  June - 963.5 mm
2013 June  - 1094.8 mm (All time highest June monthly Rainfall)

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