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Warming oceans blamed for Kolkata's record-breaking rain
The Free Press Journal
|September 27, 2025
Kolkata witnessed its heaviest rainfall in nearly four decades as a relentless downpour lashed the city, flooding large parts and leaving around ten people dead.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) reported 251.4 mm of rain between Monday night and Tuesday morning, making it the highest single-day rainfall since 1986 and the sixth-highest in 137 years of records.
The rain peaked between 3 am and 4am on September 23 with 98 mm falling in just one hour. Though intense, it narrowly missed the 100 mm threshold required to be termed a cloudburst. IMD officials said a low-pressure system that formed on September 22 over Odisha and the northwest Bay of Bengal moved toward Gangetic West Bengal, pulling in moisture and triggering the deluge.
This story is from the September 27, 2025 edition of The Free Press Journal.
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