Mumbai rains: Six days accounted for 40% of citys rain this year

September 21, 2017 11:14

The rains are not the same anymore. In recent years, instead of the monsoon being more or less evenly distributed across four months, the city saw a few days of intense rain that contributed to almost half the citys annual rainfall, according to experts. This, they said, could be the monsoon pattern from now on, which means Mumbai may become prone to floods.

This monsoon, just six days of very heavy to extremely heavy rain contributed to 40 per cent of the citys rainfall so far.

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