Saturday, September 11, 2010

Keeping tab on the rainfall

For several days now India Meteorological Department (Kolkata) has the following warning on this website
"Heavy to very heavy rain may occur at a few places over Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Coochbehar districts of Sub-Himalayan West Bengal during next 24 hours. Heavy rain may also occur at isolated places over Bihar, Sikkim and remaining districts of Sub-Himalayan West Bengal during next 24 hours."
The cloud picture from Satellite Kalpana-1 of today is shown and the rainfall figure of three towns are :-
1. Kalimpong (10Sep2010) - 51mm      11Sep2010 (upto 9AM) - 18mm
(At Kalimpong the rainfall has more or less stopped)
2. Kurseong (10Sep2010) - 65mm        11 Sep2010 (upto 9AM) -16mm
(It is continuing to rain heavily at Kurseong)
3. Darjeeling (10Sep2010) - 10mm       11Sep2010 (upto 9AM) - 20mm
(Whereas there was hardly any rainfall yesterday, it is raining now at Darjeeling)


Posted at 1000hrs on 11Sep2010.

Praful Rao

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