Bengaluru cripples for 50-100 mm rainfall while Chennai had 300-500 mm rainfall
Posted on: 30/Jul/2016 2:24:38 PM
This is not put up to stir up Chennai vs Bengaluru fight but to show the impact Chennai had during 2015 floods was of epic scale. It was not an one day Chennai rainfall in NEM that was so devastating. On November 8-9, Chennai Rainfall ranged around 200 -100 mm, on November 13, the rainfall ranged around 300-100 mm, on November 15-16, it was around 350 mm-200 mm, on November 23rd it was 150-100 mm. Finally on December 1st it was 500 - 300mm. Not once but for 5 days of deluge was Chennai 2015 history. No city can take this kind of rainfall. The spells were so intense all the time.
Comparison of Chennai and Bengaluru
Chennai has three Rivers cooum, Adyar, Kosasthalayar and a waterway called Buckingham canal connecting all three. And to complex things there is a major marshland and sea on the other side with tidal effect. It also has steep upstream and a flat city. No city in India has so many challenges in handling floods. Here is the rainfall of comparison of Chennai December 1st and Bengaluru 29th July Rainfall. Bengaluru city got 42 mm While Chennai city got 294 mm. Bengaluru AP got 71 mm while Chennai AP got 345 mm.
Conclusion
If Chennai rains happen in Bengaluru in future, it will cripple the city for weeks. If not for days. You have to understand the magnitude of rainfall which happened in and around Chennai. It has never happened before...One of the worst rains in Catchment of Areas of Adyar in 200 years.
I love Bengaluru tooo. But to be honest Chennai is better prepared to handle floods than Bengaluru....Its a hard truth all Bengalurians will accept,Chennai daww. How effectively the flood was handled by the people of Chennai and the officials took steps to make sure there was no outbreak of disease.
Forecast
Bengaluru is going to see lots of dry days in coming days. Chennai too the same fate. But both Bengaluru and Chennai are expected to get rains today.
Courtesy - Tamil Nadu Weatherman
