Abundant monsoon including chart

The year 2020 has turned out to be a really good rainfall year. It didn’t start well. In the first five months we received only 62 mm as compared to the average of 102.8mm, or 39.79% less. During the next four months, June-September, we received 318 mm, which was 19.35% less than the average of 394.8mm. Things improved in the last three months. On 31/12 we recorded 1,319 mm versus an average of 821.9 mm, a surplus of 55.49%. In the last 44 years, only three other December months (in 1996, 1998 and 2015) received more rainfall than this year’s December. which recorded 264.70% over the average for the month. The total for the year 2020 is 1,658.30 mm versus the average of 1,319 mm, or 25.68% above average. The maximum yearly rainfall ever recorded was 2,088 mm, in  2015.