Bengaluru has damaged a document this yr for the best annual rainfall in historical past, with a surprising 1,704 mm recorded in 2022, knowledge from the India Meteorological Division (IMD) observatory mentioned.
The earlier document was made in 2017, the Bangalore Mirror reported.
“With 13 mm of rainfall acquired right this moment until 8:30 pm, #Bengaluru Metropolis #IMD observatory has damaged the all time document for the wettest yr in recorded historical past by recording a large 1704 mm of rainfall for the yr. The earlier document was 1696 mm recorded simply 5 years in the past in 2017!” a Twitter web page referred to as Bengaluru Climate, run by a gaggle of climate fans, mentioned.
The web page has no affiliation to any official company.
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The Bengaluru Climate web page additionally tweeted: “Listed below are the highest 10 of the wettest years in #Bengaluru since 1900.
2022 – 1706 mm (until right this moment)
2017 – 1696 mm
2005 – 1608.5 mm
2021 – 1510.5 mm
1998 – 1431.8 mm
1916 – 1348 mm
1991 – 1338.5 mm
1903 – 1301.3 mm
2008 – 1286 mm
1958 – 1283.3 mm
#bengalururains”
The Karnataka capital has been on a record-breaking spree this yr, having recorded the wettest April in seven years, coolest day of Might in 10 years, wettest June in a decade, highest day by day rainfall in July in 14 years and the wettest September day since 2014.
Officers of the IMD had predicted final month that 2022 could possibly be the wettest yr in comparison with 2017.
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Forecasts from the Karnataka State pure Diaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC) mentioned there may be extra to come back as widespread very gentle to reasonable rains related to thunderstorms and lightning are seemingly over the BBMP space, whereas widespread very gentle to reasonable rains with remoted to scattered heavy to very heavy rains are seemingly throughout the state.
“Thunderstorms related to lightning are seemingly at remoted locations over the state,” the centre tweeted.