This January, the state of Uttar Pradesh has seen bumper rains with East Uttar Pradesh observing 115 percent surplus rains and West Uttar Pradesh observing 179 percent rains. Thus, January 2020 was possibly one of the rainiest as compared to the previous years.
If we take a look at the recent years for the month of January, January 2014 saw similar weather with West Uttar Pradesh observing 166 percent surplus rains and East Uttar Pradesh seeing 183 percent.
2019 had West Uttar Pradesh seeing -33 percent rains, and East Uttar Pradesh at -5 percent. The worst was 2018 where West Uttar Pradesh was deficient by 89 percent and East Uttar Pradesh by 96 percent.
2017 was an uneven one with West Uttar Pradesh seeing 21 percent surplus rains while -42 percent rains persisted in East Uttar Pradesh. 2016 was highly deficient, while 2015 performed fairly well.
January 2020 seen very good rains and there have been very few regions which did observe deficiency after all. Let us talk about the rain performance of four divisions of Uttar Pradesh including Pashchim Pradesh, Bundelkhand, Awadh and Poorvanchal.
Pashchim Pradesh, which is the western parts of the state and it consists of Agra, Aligarh, Baghpat, Meerut, Bijnor, Bareilly, Mathura, Moradabad, Muzzafarnagar etc. Poorvanchal, which is the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh comprises of Gorakhpur, Sultanpur, Pratapgarh, Varanasi, Deoria, Fathepur etc.
Bundelkhand on the other hand are areas adjoining Madhya Pradesh, and consists of Jhansi, Lalitpur, Mahooba, Banda, Jalaun, Chitrakoot etc and is the smallest district. Awadh includes the central parts and cities of Lucknow, Kanpur, Etawah, Sitapur etc.
Except Poorvanchal, all the three regions are surplus. Deficiency persists in Poorvanchal including Janupur at -83 percent, Deoria -37 percent, Azamgarh -58 percent, Balia -75 percent, Varanasi -20 percent. Meanwhile, Gonda is surplus at 538 percent.
Talking about Awadh, the region saw bumper rainfall with Kanpur observing 789 percent surplus rains while Lucknow recorded surpus of 313 percent. In Bundelkhand, except Mahoobaa which was surplus at 6 percent, all the other areas saw 100 percent excess rains. In fact, Jalaun saw a surplus of 260 percent.
In Pashchim Pradesh, areas adjoining Delhi did not see very large surpluses with Bulandshahr seeing 25 percent surplus and on the other hand Bareilly saw 644 percent surplus rains, Baghpat recorded 567 percent excess rains.
Thus, in a nutshell, Uttar Pradesh has seen an extremely rainy January this year, with a few cities to have even broken records.
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