Pune likely to get excess rainfall in last leg of monsoon

“The city has already received its quota and thus Pune would end the season with excess rainfall,” he said.

This would be a positive aspect, as last year the city and the district have reported large deficit due to failure of the monsoon.

Sanap said that Pune and its surrounding areas are expected to receive light to medium rainfall in the next four to five days. The 10-day Ganesh festival would also see very light rainfall, he said.

Most of the dams which supply water to Pune city are almost full and thus excess rainfall would result in more release in the river bed. Ujjani, the dam which stands at the tail end of the Bhima river basin, is also 100 per cent full. Increased soil moisture has led to brighter chances of rabi later in the year.

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There are significant spikes in rainfall where Pune has reported extremely high rainfall almost akin to cloud burst. Climate scientists have long predicted that climate change would see an increase in extreme weather events, including periods of heavy rainfall, in a short span of time. The floods in July were a result of such rainfall which had claimed many lives and destruction of property, they had said.

A striking feature of this year’s monsoon for Pune is the reduced number of rainy days.

The IMD defines a rainy day as one when a particular weather station (in case of Pune it is the Shivajinagar observatory) records minimum of 2.5 mm of rainfall. Thus for the 90-day period starting from June, Pune has seen 44 rainy days.