Warning issued to some interior districts; sky likely to remain cloudy across Chennai
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Boys playing football as dark clouds loom over the shores of Foreshore Estate in the city on Wednesday | Ashwin Prasath By Express News Service
CHENNAI: The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday said Tamil Nadu and the adjoining UT of Puducherry will receive isolated heavy rainfall in the next three days, under the influence of a trough formed over Comorin area and discontinuity at lower tropospheric levels.
Thunderstorms with lightning, and associated gusty winds with speeds reaching 30-40 kmph, and with moderate rain is likely to occur at many places in interior districts and over coastal districts of TN, Puducherry and Karaikal on Thursday, said the Met office.
Taming jallikatu ban, together
On January 17, 2017, thousands of youth gathered on Marina Beach to protest Supreme Court ban on jallikattu. The protest, which was largely organised on social media, soon turned into a celebration of Tamil traditions with people from various professions joining the chorus, forcing the Centre to clear an ordinance proposed by TN to ensure conduct of the bull-taming festival. The culmination of the protest in violence left a bad taste that lingers till date. While the State government has claimed that its draft ordinance is a permanent solution, many say it is just a stop gap measure
Coimbatore: Coonoor has joined the list of weather stations creating rainfall history. The hill station has so far recorded 323mm rain this month, which is the highest rainfall in January in 86 years.
It was in the pre-Independent era, in 1934, when the hill station recorded 312.8mm rainfall. The event in 1934 also occurred due to a depression in the Bay of Bengal that moved into the Arabian Sea in a weakened state.
Weather experts said the record for this month is yet to be set as the town may continue to receive rain on and off until January 17.
Indian meteorological department (IMD) data shows that Coonoor recorded 323mm rain as of Thursday. This breaks the historic record set in 1934. IMD records showed that a depression had formed in the southwest part of the Bay of Bengal, near Sri Lanka on January 22 that year. It moved in the westerly direction. On January 24, some port officers along the Coromandel coast found that the depression weakened and a low-pressure wave had mov
Coimbatore: Last Wednesday will go down in the history books as the day when Coimbatore recorded the highest rainfall within 24 hours in January.
The district recorded 112.8mm rain, which is nearly four times the 33.4mm recorded in January 1985. In fact, the evening rain surpassed the highest amount of rainfall recorded in the whole month of January.
According to the India meteorological department, as the northeast monsoon or rain bearing winds recede by December-end, January should record nil or extremely light drizzles. The highest amount of rainfall recorded throughout January was 64mm in 1985.
However, that record was also broken on Wednesday evening. “Coimbatore so far has recorded 135.4mm, because it received 22.6mm rainfall from January 3,” said Pradeep John, who runs the Tamil Nadu Weatherman blog.
‘This is among the highest rainfall Chennai received in last 100 years
With the Northeast monsoon yet to withdraw, several parts of the State are witnessing moderate to heavy rainfall, which is unusual in January.
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CHENNAI: With the Northeast monsoon yet to withdraw, several parts of the State are witnessing moderate to heavy rainfall, which is unusual in January. Chennai and its surroundings, in particular, have received non-stop rainfall since Monday night. The Met office said this will continue till Wednesday.
This is among the highest rainfall the city has experienced in the last 100 years, said ‘Tamil Nadu Weatherman’ Pradeep John on his blog. The city received 145 mm of rainfall in a 15-hour window between Monday and Tuesday. In the 24 hours from 8.30 am on Tuesday, 83 mm is expected.