Mumbai: Mahabaleshwar has received more rainfall than Meghalaya’s Cherrapunjee, known as the wettest place on the earth, this monsoon.
According to reports, Mahabaleshwar has recorded 300 inches i.e. 7,631 mm of rainfall till September 8 while Cherrapunjee has received little over 6,500 mm rainfall in the same period.
On the same day last year, Mahabaleshwar had received 237 inches or 6,019 mm of rainfall. Mahabaleshwar, a popular hill station located in the Sahyadri mountain range, tends to receive more rainfall compared to the Konkan, Western Ghats and Madhya Maharashtra every monsoon. Due to its topography, Mahabale-shwar also witnesses a thick fog every monsoon around its hills.
The rainfall in Mahabaleshwar increases the water stock of Koyna dam, a rubble-concrete dam constructed on the Koyna River, which affects the areas of Chiplun in Ratnagiri district and Karad in the Satara district of the state.
