Convective buildup is seen west of Kalimpong in the IR satellite image at 8.15pm on 26Jun2023. Cloud movement is approx west to east.
It started raining heavily at around 7 pm on 26Jun and continued ON and OFF thru the night. Late at night or in the early morning, there was lightning and thunder heard for sometime.
It rained thru the night in Kalimpong and its vicinity:
Darjeeling: 52.4mm
Gangtok:18.2mm
The rainfall seems to be totally localized affair - with Kalimpong bearing the brunt of it.
Bagrakot, Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar which lie in the Dooars east of Kalimpong received only a trace of rainfall.
Rainfall persists in Kalimpong at 10.30am on 27Jun2023.
Praful Rao
Kalimpong district,
Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya
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