Wet July week brings down rain deficit in Valley from 52% to 17%

After largely dry and hot weather since the beginning of summer in May-June, Kashmir has received very good rains in the past one week breaking the dry spell, bringing heatwave-like conditions under control and rejuvenating the water bodies of the Himalayan valley.

- Ashiq Hussain

Kashmir has received 31.7 mm average rainfall from July 11 to 17, comprising over 40% of the total 76 mm average rainfall since June 1.

Meteorologists of the Srinagar weather monitoring centre (MeT) said that the 66.5% above normal rainfall in the past one week brought Kashmir's rain deficit since June 1 from 52% to manageable 17.5%.

"Kashmir was reeling under deficit rainfall since June. As against 92.1 mm of normal rainfall, Kashmir had just received 44.3 mm average rains till last week. However, the average rainfall of 31.7 mm from July 11 to 17, particularly from Monday has helped to bridge the deficit gap and rejuvenate the water bodies," said an official of MeT.