Pune gets its average rain quota for June
TOI : PUNE: Pune has managed to get the average rainfall for the month of June, thanks to heavy showers, particularly in the catchment areas, towards the end of the month. However, many districts in the state did not receive average rainfall last month.
“Due to the presence of an offshore trough, most parts of the state received rain. The trough extends from the Gujarat coast to the Kerala coast with embedded cyclonic circulation over northeast Arabian Sea. Due to this, widespread rainfall with heavy to very heavy showers at a few places is likely over Konkan and Goa, south Gujarat region and Saurashtra in the next 48 hours,” said Medha Khole, director (weather central), India Meteorological Department (IMD).
Fairly widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy showers are also likely over Madhya Maharashtra, coastal Karnataka, Kerala and Lakshadweep during the same period, she added.
Pune, which was suffering from a poor rainfall after the start of the monsoon, witnessed good rainfall in the last couple of days of June. As per the figures available with the Met department, Pune received 52 mm rainfall on Sunday and Monday, taking the total rainfall for the first month of the season up to 128 mm, more by 15 mm than normal.
Places like Mumbai, Mahabaleshwar, Nagpur and Parbhani recorded more than normal rainfall. Till the end of June, Mumbai received 734.9 mm rainfall — 183.9 mm more than average. During the same period, Mahabaleshwar recorded 1,293.7 mm rainfall — 438.7 mm more than normal. It witnessed 215 mm rainfall during the last two days of last month. Nagpur received 205.9 mm rainfall — 31.3 mm more than normal.
Many districts of Maharashtra did not record even normal rainfall for June. Akola recorded only 4.1 mm — 52.4 mm less than normal. Other cities like Aurangabad, Ahmednagar, Jalgaon, Nashik, Ratnagiri, Solapur and Yavatmal…More
