{"id":25613,"date":"2022-08-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myanmarnewswire.com\/?guid=ab7bc9feee62bfc227bf8058b1d0964a"},"modified":"2022-08-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T00:00:00","slug":"myanmar-towns-recorded-highest-single-day-rainfalls-in-over-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myanmarnewswire.com\/myanmar-towns-recorded-highest-single-day-rainfalls-in-over-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar Towns Recorded Highest Single-Day Rainfalls In Over 50 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Myanmar\u2019s commercial city of Yangon, and the western town of Kyaukphyu, experienced the heaviest single-day rainfalls in over 50 years yesterday, according to the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology.<\/P><P>Yangon, the former capital of the country, saw its highest single-day rainfall in 54 years, with 170 mm recorded yesterday, compared to the figure of 149 mm in Aug, 2019, the weather bureau reported.<\/P><P>Kyaukphyu, a major town in Rakhine State, recorded 502 mm yesterday, the highest in 58 years, compared to that of 272 mm in Aug, 1994.<\/P><P>\u201cThe record rainfalls occur because of a heavy monsoon wind coming from the east,\u201d Hla Tun, director of the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, said, yesterday.<\/P><P>\u201cDespite the single-day extreme rainfalls, this year\u2019s average rainfall is low and poor,\u201d he added.<\/P><P>Yesterday morning, the rain-triggered floods left some areas in Yangon inundated.<\/P><P>Jul and Aug are the months with the average highest rainfalls in Myanmar, which sees its rainy season from mid-May to late Oct.<\/P><P>Even so, some towns in the country experienced record-breaking July heatwaves this year, in nearly 70 years, according to the weather bureau\u2019s report.<\/P><P>Extreme weather events are likely to occur in the future because of climate change, Hla Tun said.<\/P><P><\/P><P>Source: NAM News Network<\/P><P><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar\u2019s commercial city of Yangon, and the western town of Kyaukphyu, experienced the heaviest single-day rainfalls in over 50 years yesterday, according to the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology.Yangon, the former capital of the country, saw it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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