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Wettest September
Vibha Sharma/TNS

New Delhi, September 22 
With the extended southwest monsoon rains continuing to rain misery, the September of 2010 may go down as one of the wettest months in the meteorological history of the region. 

The country on the whole has recorded 4% excess rains as far as long period average between June 1 and September 22 is concerned, primarily on the basis of an extremely good performance by the monsoon in the northwest region comprising Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Chandigarh, Himachal, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan and the South Peninsula. In fact, the South Peninsula and Northwest are topping the rain charts with 19% and 15% more rains than the normal. 

Even today, monsoon continued to play havoc in the north with Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh being the worst hit. Northwest recorded a surplus of 104% and east and northeast India of 21%.

In the past two days widespread rainfall has occurred over Himachal, Haryana, northeast Rajasthan, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, Coastal Karnataka and Lakshwadeep and fairly widespread over Uttarakhand, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, northeastern States, Gangetic West Bengal, interior Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

Rain deficient