Chennai, December 30
Heavy to very heavy rains pounded Chennai and the suburbs on Thursday, inundating roads and subways, and the intense spell may turn out to be one of the heaviest witnessed in rec
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.