No cyclone, No Depression, No Low pressure. Yet what a rainfall we have seen in Chennai and by January standards our rainfall is just 20 mm yet we have got over 7 times the January month rainfall in less than 15 hours.
The rains are expected to continue for another hour and then we are going into break, we can see that last batch of cloud. Rains from current spell to reduce gradually after the last clouds move in from coastal areas in next few hours to then interior part of the city.
Rainfall in KTCC on 05.01.2020
in mm (cut-off at 8.30 am and after 8.30 till 2.00 pm)
Taramani – 55 + 115 = 170
Meenambakkam – 44 + 105 = 149
Nungambakkam – 63 + 77 = 140
Anna University (Guindy) – 47 + 85 = 132
Hindustan University (Kelambakkam) – 62 + 66 = 128
Villivakkam – 57 + 53 = 110
Somangalam (West Tambaram) – 22 + 87 = 109
Poonamalle – 23 + 71 = 94
Ennore – 34 + 33 = 67
Chennai City (Nungambakkam) Top 24 hrs rainfall in 150 years
in mm
212.9 – 15.01.1915 (All time Record)
99.8 – 02.01.1920
82.8 – 05.01.1903
77.0 – 06.01.2021 (ongoing will come as tomorrow rainfall ending 8.30 am)
66.9 – 13.01.1986
66.5 – 01.01.1909
63.0 – 05.01.2021 (actual rainfall crossed 140 mm (63+77), because of 8.30 am cut-off rainfall readings are split)