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From: Jeff Weber (jweber{at}ucar.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 28 2005 - 11:36:43 EDT
I believe the record stated was for a 24 hour period in which 26" fell....
Jeff
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On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, WeatherMatrix Admin wrote:
> Chris Burt is the author of Extreme Weather
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> >There have been a lot of stories about the 37" of rain in Bombay two days
> >ago, most of which said this was a national record. Phenomenal as the
> >rainfall was, there have been, in fact, at least four greater ones:
> >
> >Cherrapunji, Assam 41.6" 6/14/1876
> >Jowai, Meghalaya 40.8" 9/11/1877
> >Dharampur, Gujarat 39.6" 7/2/1941
> >Mawasynram, Meghalaya 39.6" 7/10/1952
> >
> >All of these records are well documented by the Indian Institute of
> >Tropical Meteorology at Pune. The British during the colonial era and the
> >Indians since have been assiduous record keepers. The non-fact of Bombay's
> >"record national rainfall' is no more than an exuberant exaggeration in
> >the local media, horrific though the flooding disaster is.
> >
> >Chris Burt
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