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Pune shatters 119-year July rainfall record as monsoon refuses to relent
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The Indian Express
Pune has remained under cloudy skies over the past few days, with intermittent showers throughout the day.
According to the IMD, the weather station had recorded 508.9 mm of rainfall till 8.30 am on July 29, marginally surpassing its previous highest July total of 508.5 mm.
Even before the first week of July ended, Shivajinagar received 108.4 mm of rain on July 6, the fourth-highest single-day rainfall recorded there since 1896.
On July 7, Shivajinagar received 97.5 mm of rain, the fifth-highest single-day rainfall ever recorded at Pune’s main weather station.
On July 8, the station recorded 84.8 mm, making it one of the 10 wettest days in its recorded history.