A Month Before Chennai Floods, The Met Office Had Issued A Warning | Read
Chennai had been warned by the Met department in mid-October this year that it could see very heavy rainfall of the kind that could cause flooding. The India Meteorological Department or IMD had, on October 16, forecast a very wet last quarter, saying that the seasonal rainfall was likely to be more than 112 per cent of the long period average for Tamil Nadu, which it assessed at 43.82 centimetres.
