The city recorded as many as five “extremely heavy” rain days this monsoon, when over 200mm of downpour lashed the city within a 24-hour span and disrupted daily life. The numbers are worrisome—and worthy of Swedish 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg’s attention— when one considers that the eight preceding “extremely heavy” rain days occurred over a stretched-out period of a decade, from 2009 to 2018.The city recorded as many as five “extremely heavy” rain days this monsoon, when over 200mm of downpour lashed the city within a 24-hour span and disrupted daily life. The numbers are worrisome—and worthy of Swedish 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg’s attention— when one considers that the eight preceding “extremely heavy” rain days occurred over a stretched-out period of a decade, from 2009 to 2018.
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