Monsoons Mount Abu in the year of the Pandemic 2020.
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| Paddy Bridge |
This year, we had a few showers in lengthy intervals during July. They recorded only 6 inches of rain. August, the rainfall was erratic, and we had most of our rainfall at the fag end of the month. We observe an increase in climate change every year. Rainfall has become more variable, extreme, and catastrophic. We are now into the first week of September and yesterday the rain gods took it upon themselves to rain down cats and dogs. The torrential downpour for an hour and 30 minutes flooded not only our streams but the roads and all our water bodies, our two dams Lower Khodra and Upper Khodra dam the Nakki Lake overflowed, sending cascades of water down the hillsides.
The met report now states our retreating monsoons are in play. Guess we will see a few thunderstorms before it finally peters out.
The tourists who were descending and those climbing the hill were in awe of the spectacle they witnessed. I’m posting a few pictures sent to me via WhatsApp about the events of yesterday.
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| Paddy Bridge |
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| Tourists Below are videos sent to me per kind favour Ms Trina. |
Trina on the dam
Per kind favour Ms Trina
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| Mount Abu 6 Sept 2020 Received vis WhatsApp |
Totally in contrast to the years when we were there getting 80 inches in June July Aug
ReplyDeleteBaroda got 47 inches and almost all came in Aug