24-hour downpour same as KL’s average monthly rainfall

Updated 1 year ago · Published on 19 Dec 2021 9:20PM · 1 Comments

The Environment and Water Ministry says the heavy rain is expected to end, as the low pressure weather system has moved away from Malaysia towards the Andaman Sea. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Afif Abd Halim, December 19, 2021.

THE 24-hour heavy downpour that began late night on Friday is the same as the average rainfall of a month, said the Environment and Water Ministry, which is a one in 100-year weather event.

Ministry secretary-general Zaini Ujang said the phenomenon occurred because of monsoon flow factors and a low pressure weather system that achieved the level of a tropical depression that formed in the South China Sea.

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  • Like always full of excuses from a failed government which was too occupied the past 2 years politicking.

    Posted 1 year ago by Bartok D