India, Aug. 27 -- With a flood-like situation prevailing across Jammu and Kashmir, the meteorological centre in Srinagar on Wednesday said that Jammu recorded 380mm of rainfall in the past 24 hours, making it the highest-ever one-time rainfall in a day in the region.

MeT centre director Mukhtar Ahmad said that Jammu recorded the highest rainfall in 24 hours since the MeT centre started recording in Jammu in 1960s.

"The 380 mm is record rainfall in Jammu in 24 hours since we started recording in Jammu in 1964," he said.

Heavy rains for the past one week have wreaked havoc in Jammu division causing cloudbursts, flash floods, swelling rivers, inundation of low lying areas, landslides in mountainous areas and damaging infrastructure like b...