wrote:
Looks to be kosher:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...710398,00.html

This was posted to TWO as well and a bit of digging shows the 24hr
record is 1870mm, so this is well within the bounds of possibility.

Rob

The 1870 mm is a world record and was recorded in Réunion.
Nothing to do with Bombay. The 944 mm, reported in The Guardian as
94.4 cm, seems a bit on the wild side. On the other hand a "mere" 94.4
mm in 24 hours would not have caused the reported damage in Bombay,
which is well used to this sort of thing. At Bombay (Santacruz), whose
METARs I monitor during the monsoon there were several hours of +RA but
otherwise this year's monsoon seems to have been late and rather weak.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.