Udhampur receives 630mm rainfall in 24 hours, Jammu too breaks record

Similarly, the 24-hour rainfall recorded at Udhampur on Tuesday was 629.4mm, making it the wettest day across seasons and months.

Previous wettest day was recorded on July 31, 2019 (342mm). Tuesday’s total rainfall was more than half of Udhampur’s total monsoon seasonal rainfall of 1,071mm. In August, the location’s mean August rainfall is 418mm.

Damaged remains of a bridge on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway due to heavy rainfall, in Udhampur. (Source: PTI Photo)

The ongoing spell of rainfall experienced over the north and northwest India has been causing extensive damage to the region, including Jammu, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and parts of Gujarat.

According to the Met department, there are strong interactions over north India between a stream of western disturbances and the moist winds flowing-in from the Bay of Bengal that triggered such extreme rainfall over Jammu and neighbouring areas.

“Though the rainfall intensity will reduce over Jammu after Wednesday, heavy rain will still prevail. We have issued a ‘yellow’ alert for the next three days,” a senior meteorologist from the National Weather Forecasting Centre, New Delhi, said.

On Wednesday, many states spanning Goa, Lakshadweep, Odisha, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Jharkhand, Haryana, Vidarbha, Madhya Maharashtra, Assam, and Kerala too recorded widespread heavy rainfall, IMD said.

A well-marked low pressure area formed in the Bay of Bengal, off Odisha coast and this system is likely to move westwards along Odisha during the next 24 hours, the department stated. The monsoon trough continued to run along its normal position.

In this view, the IMD has warned of very heavy to extremely rainfall (150 – 200mm or more in 24-hours) along the coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Maharashtra, Konkan, Kerala and coastal Karnataka during the next two days.