September Shrikar rain breaks 25-year record in Mumbai: 31 inches in nine days

Mumbai, Ta. September 14, 2019, Saturday

The monsoon of 2019 is a torrential downpour from the sky of Mumbai. In particular, it is reported that the record of the last 25 years has been broken by the Shrikar rain in Mumbai in September.

According to weather department sources, Mumbai has received heavy rainfall of 3342.9 millimeters (133 inches) from June 1 to June 9, September-2019. (Santa Cruz) received 789 millimeters (31 inches) of rain.

The record of 25 years from September -1994 to September-2010 is recorded. Meteorological sources also reported that in the monsoon of 2019, as on September 13, September, Santa Cruz had received 3398.6 millimeters (135.92 inches) of rainfall while Colaba had received 2364.6 millimeters (94.56 inches) of rainfall.

The sources also reported that Mumbai recorded 920 millimeters of rainfall in September-1954, which is the highest September rainfall record to date. In September-1993, Mumbai received 904 mm rainfall while in September-1981, 821 mm rainfall was recorded.

Meteorological scientist Sunil Kamble said that in the first five days of September-2019, as many as 500 millimeters of rain was recorded in Mumbai. Rainfall is rarely rained on these days. Was.

These five factors include offshore shore troughs, two cyclonic circulations created over Madhya Pradesh and north Mumbai, east-west shear zones, and air pressure in the Bay of Bengal.