The India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) has predicted thunderstorm in Mumbai deposited 235mm of rain, while Friday’s rainfall measured up to 253mm. However, on Sunday, more than 204.5mm of rain fell in 24 hours in the city, leaving the weather expert amazed by the monster thunderstorm.
According to the images from the weather department’s doppler radar, the monster thunderstorm had a cloud top height of nearly 18kms, or 60,000 feet, which is approximately twice the height of Mount Everest.
A leading news daily quoted an independent meteorologist and PhD researcher at the University Of Reading, England, Akshay Deoras as saying that the images from the IMD’s doppler radar showed that the thunderstorm had a cloud top height of nearly 18kms or 60,000 feet.