Data: How the Chennai rainfall occurred
The Hindu
The depression that formed in the Bay of Bengal and crossed the Tamil Nadu coast on Thursday evening brought intense spells of rain in Chennai and other northern and delta districts of the State. The
The depression that formed in the Bay of Bengal and crossed the Tamil Nadu coast on Thursday evening brought intense spells of rain in Chennai and other northern and delta districts of the State. The graphs below show how the rainfall occurred during the 24 hours from 4 p.m. on Wednesday to 4 p.m. Thursday in different regions of Chennai.
The rainfall intensified on Wednesday night around 11 p.m. and subsided since Thursday morning.
According to the data, the northern parts of Chennai seemed to have received maximum rainfall, with Ennore Port recording a total of 22.4 cm of rainfall in the 24-hour period. Between 11 p.m. on Wednesday night to 5 a.m. on Thursday morning, the rain gauge station recorded at least 2 cm rainfall every hour.
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