With over 745 mm of rains yesterday, the town has received over 1500 mm of rainfall within the last three days. Shops, business establishments remained closed and few cars plied on the road in view of the incessant rains.
"Mawsynram received 745.2 mm of rainfall on August 19 and this could be the highest rainfall received by the town and its nearby areas till date," an official data collector of the IMD here told PTI.
"Sohra received 471.7 mm of rainfall yesterday, the highest in the last 10 years. In August 2005 it received 407.7 mm of rainfall," head of the meteorology office at Sohra, Vijay Kumar Singh, said.
Both Mawsynram and Sohra towns have received bountiful rainfall this year breaking their own records for several years.
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In June, Mawsynram received 4781.2 mm and Sohra received 4355.5 mm of rainfall, both record breaking since 1995.
The onslaught of heavy rainfall in Meghalaya, Assam and the foothills of Himalayas is due to the Monsoon trough, IMD officials in Guwahati said.
Mawsynram and Sohra - the two towns already in record books as the rainiest places on earth - receive maximum condensation through the funnel-shaped catchment opening to the south on either side of where they are located. The precipitation occurs at around 4500 feet where both towns are located, the officials said.
The record rainfall in these two neighbouring towns in the same district had many people wondering where all the water goes to.