Assam and Meghalaya recorded the highest June rainfall in 121 years with 858.1mm precipitation, breaking the earlier record of 789.5mm recorded in 1966, but rainfall over Kerala and Mahe were the fourth lowest since 1901 at 308.7mm, a climate summary for June prepared by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Pune said.
As per the report estimated over 313 people died; 72 people were injured; 50 were missing and over 72,000 livestock perished due to heavy rainfall and lightning in the first month of monsoon.
Heavy rainfall in May and June led to severe flooding in Assam and Meghalaya this year killing over 150 persons, triggering landslides and inundating large parts of the state. Southerly and southwesterly affected the Eastern Himalayan region in June. Copious amounts of moisture from Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal accumulated in the region leading to extremely heavy rain.
Rainfall over the country as a whole for June 2022 was recorded at 152.3 mm, which is 8% less than its Long Period Average (LPA) of 165.3mm.
