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Identity crisis for city rains
Updated On: 14 September, 2009 07:50 AM IST | | Somita Pal
The rains in the city are caught in a tug of war: the BMC claims that it is their cloud seeding experiments that have caused rainfall in the catchment areas, while the MET department attributes it to a low-pressure belt over the Bay of Bengal.
The rains in the city are caught in a tug of war: the BMC claims that it is their cloud seeding experiments that have caused rainfall in the catchment areas, while the MET department attributes it to a low-pressure belt over the Bay of Bengal.
Satisfactory rainfall
Dr R V Sharma, deputy director of MET department, western region, said, "Mumbai and its catchment areas got satisfactory rainfall in the last three weeks as a result of a low pressure belt in the Bay of Bengal.
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Cloud seeding has only five to 10 per cent influence on normal rainfall. A 5mm-15mm rainfall caused by cloud seeding makes no difference."
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