In just 18 days, extreme rain this Aug at 5-yr high

The country has seen 1,204 instances of very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall in the first 18 days of August alone, the highest for any monsoon month in the last five years for which such data was made available. This is twice the number recorded in August 2018. The IMD calculated the very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall frequency during 24-hour periods for its 3,500 stations spread across India.

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