Meghalaya’s Mawsynram — the world’s wettest place — rewrote its June 2022 rainfall records held since 1940.
- The 24-hour rainfall recorded here on June 17 was a whopping 1003.6mm, surpassing the previous record of 945.4mm of 1966.
- The second closest rainfall record was held by nearby Cherrapunji, another wet place, where the 24-hour rainfall on June 17 was 972mm.
- For three consecutive days since June 15, the 24-hour rain recorded in Cherrapunji were — 811mm, 673.6mm and 972mm.
- Cherrapunji received 972 mm of rainfall, the highest in June since 1995 and the third highest in 122 years.
- Cherrapunji has recorded more than 800 mm of precipitation on a day in June on eight occasions since the IMD started maintaining weather records in 1901.
- On June 16, 1995, Cherrapunji logged 1563.3 mm of rainfall.
- Mawsynram is at present the wettest place in India, with an average annual rainfall of 11802.4 mm (average of the 1974-2022 period).
- Cherrapunji receives 11359.4 mm of rainfall in a year (average of the 1971-2020 period).
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