Jul2008 - a quiet month (as far as landslides went in the Darjeeling Himalayas)

Date	July Rainfall(mm)
	2007	2008
1	5	8
2	1	55
3	3	4
4	11	4
5	14	48
6	57	8
7	37	0
8	11	1
9	3	8
10	25	4
11	10	13
12	47	13
13	22	19
14	80	38
15	0	52
16	199	16
17	131	4
18	9	8
19	1	60
20	17	40
21	47	1
22	41	5
23	41	38
24	8	17
25	84	27
26	66	2
27	116	6
28	61	26
29	6	6
30	8	10
31	32	1
Total	1193	542

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Normal Average Rainfall Jul = 765mm (http://wbagrimarketingboard.gov.in/rainfall/rainfall_darjeeling.html)

Rainfall Jul2007 = 1193mm

Rainfall Jul2008 = 542mm

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July2008 was a quiet month as far as landslides went in the Darjeeling and Sikkim Himalayas... and a look at the rainfall data above explains why

• we received much less (almost 200mm short) than the average monthly rainfall.
  
• in July 2007, we received more than double the rain we had in Jul2008 which I think somewhat explains why the National Hydroelectric Power Corp (NHPC) stage III Dam at 27th mile went under water on the 27Jul2007

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Comment by praful rao

Rainfall data kind courtesy,
Mrs Kanta Pradhan,
Compuset,
Darjeeling


My apologies for the rainfall chart which despite my young friend Anuj's (www.kalimpong.info) best advice and intervention appears too big...