Kanpur likely to get decent rainfall in August: Met office

KANPUR: In the month of July, the city received 437.9 mm of rainfall which was 81 mm more than the average rainfall for this month. The average rainfall for the month of July is 365 mm.
For 14 days there were no rains in this month, and in the last four days too, the city witnessed no downpour, but the day temperature did not increase because of cloudy weather.
Out of 17 days when it rained, it rained heavily on 10 days causing severe waterlogging. The heaviest rainfall in July this year was on July 6 when the rain gauge was 79.4 mm.
On July 26, the month's second heaviest rains lashed the city when the rain gauge was recorded at 66.2 mm, On July 10 54.8 mm of rains was recorded, and the rain gauge was recorded at 44.6 mm. On July 7, the rain gauge was 41.2 mm while 30.2 mm of rainfall was recorded on July 26.
The Met department of CSA University stated that around 450 mm of rainfall in a month is a decent rain gauge as it ended the rain deficiency that prevailed in the month of June. It is expected the city and surrounding areas would get similar amount of rain in August as well, said the Met department.
In June, city had received only 41.2 mm of rainfall of which 26.2 mm lashed on June 26. The scanty rains in June had given an apprehension that the trend may continue in July. However, in last two months city received a total of 479.1 mm rainfall.
Incharge of the Met department of CSA University, Prof Naushad Khan, said, "It now remains to be seen whether it will rain with the same intensity or not. However, we expect decent spell of showers in August as well".