The Saturday thunderstorm in Mumbai deposited 235mm of rain at the India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) monitoring station in Santacruz. Weather experts were amazed by the monster thunderstorm which, as per the images from the weather department’s doppler radar, had a cloud top height of nearly 18kms, or 60,000 feet. The incident marked the fifth thunderstorm for Mumbai this month alone, pointed out Akshay Deoras, independent meteorologist and PhD researcher at the University Of Reading, England. Images from the IMD’s doppler radar showed that the thunderstorm had a cloud top height of nearly 18kms, or 60,000 feet. “To put in other words, the vertical extent of this monster thunderstorm is approximately twice that of Mount Everest!” Deoras said.

Source: Hindustan Times July 18, 2021 06:13 UTC