Rain deficit converts into surplus in just a week in J&K

The transiting western disturbance that along with the monsoon system, led to heavy rains in the past week in Jammu and Kashmir, has enabled the state bring down its deficiency to 19% from the current rain deficiency of 39 percent.

The interaction of the western disturbance and monsoon system resulted in heavy rain showers in the early September. Due to heavy rain, the rain deficiency for J&K came down to 32% on 2^nd September. By 4^th September it further slashed to 18%. While it rained 372.4 mm on the 4^th September, it was 519.8 mm on the 5^th September. Due to heavy rain on 4^th and 5^th September, rain surplus was 20% for J&K.

The daily rain deficiency and surplus for September was 15% deficient for 1^st September, 285% rain surplus on the 2^nd, 618% surplus on the 3^rd , followed by 1600% rain surplus for the 4^th, 3176% surplus on the 5^th and finally 3116% surplus on the 6^th September.