It hasn’t rained this much in Yangon since 1951.
Hard to believe, but the city’s Mingaladon weather station, which tracks rainfall over a 24-hour period, registered 7.64 inches (19.65 centimeters) at 9:30am on Tuesday, the Myanmar Times reported.
The old record? 5.51 inches. 64 years ago. That’s three years after independence, folks.
Since it’s literally raining as we write this, more records are likely to be busted.
U Kyaw Lwin Oo, director of Myanmar’s Department of Meteorology, told the paper that “storm remnants” in the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea and the South China Sea are responsible for the deluge in the city and in coastal areas.
Photo of group with umbrellas at Inya Lake in October, 2014 / Aung Naing Soe
