How many millimeters of rain did it take to flood Chennai?
Here's the Hindu report yesterday.
After a few days of relief from rain, monsoon activity resumed over the
State with heavy showers on the last day of the month, making this
November the second wettest month in a century for battered Chennai. Two
weather systems that have merged on Monday are likely to bring heavy
rain again over the already ravaged parts of the State. The troughs of
low pressure over Bay of Bengal near South Andaman Sea and Sri Lanka
Coast have moved and lie over southwest Bay of Bengal as one intense
weather system.
This is expected to bring very heavy rainfall up to 125
mm in parts of coastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry and some areas of south
Tamil Nadu on Tuesday and Wednesday.
While meteorologists and weather bloggers waited with bated breath for Chennai to break the centurys rainfall record, the city ended up with 1049.3 mm of rainfall on Monday due to a decrease in rain during the weekend.