Amritsar receives double of its monthly rainfall average in just first week

A spell of good amounts of rain during the last week in the holy city of Punjab has brought cheer to both – devotees and farmers. As the heavy rain lashes the city in the first week of September, Amritsar surpasses it monthly average rainfall of 102.2 mm in just the first seven days of the month. The rainfall recorded a total of 261 mm from the 1st to the 7th of September.

Punjab has been one of the worst rainfall deficit sub-divisions in India since the onset of Monsoon. The month of June was 51% deficit, July 59% deficit and August was the worst with a whopping deficit of 75%. Till August end, the rain deficit for Punjab was 65 percent.

While the first seven days of September 2014 records a rainfall of 261mm, the 10-year high for the same month was 482.1 mm in 2008, followed by 275.7 mm in 2006.

According to Skymet meteorology division in India, this could be the first and the last significant system to bring good rains in Amritsar as Monsoon in India is set to reach its withdrawal shortly.

Rainfall for Amritsar ‘14

	June	July	August	September
Actual Rainfall	62 mm	164.8 mm	33.8 mm	261 mm (1st-7th September )
Normal Rainfall	57.6 mm	186.2 mm	184.1 mm	102.2 mm

pic courtesy : Indian Express