{"id":28259,"date":"2020-09-11T05:25:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T05:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=28259"},"modified":"2020-09-11T05:25:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T05:25:53","slug":"august-rainfall-highest-since-1926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/august-rainfall-highest-since-1926\/","title":{"rendered":"August rainfall highest since 1926"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to data from the India Meteorological Department (IMD), August rainfall this year 2020 has been the highest since 1926 with 32.7 cm or about 27% more than what is normal for the month. In August 1926, the rainfall recorded was 34.8 cm, exceeding the normal by 33%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The heavy rain in August was due to several long-lasting low-pressure systems, or rain-bearing winds, that formed in the Bay of Bengal and were vigorous enough to travel all the way from the south-eastern coast up to north-west India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The surplus rain was primarily in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Odisha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IMD officials said that though August rainfall was in excess, the figure for this year\u2019s monsoon as a whole were likely to be within the department\u2019s June forecast of a normal (96 to 104% of the long period average) rainfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From June to September 6, India had registered 7% more rainfall than what is normal for this period. In the normal course, the monsoon begins its retreat from September 15 and this can go on for nearly a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to data from the India Meteorological Department (IMD), August rainfall this year 2020 has been the highest since 1926 with 32.7 cm or about 27% more than what is normal for the month. In August 1926, the rainfall recorded was 34.8 cm, exceeding the normal by 33%. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":28260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1273],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-28259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-september-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28261,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28259\/revisions\/28261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28259"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=28259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}