Harish Palaniappan's: Chennai flooding ..not probably raining like the regional MET dept says

INSAT, an indian weather satellite's pic shows clouds looming large in circles over low pressure regions in south india. more towards tamilnadu, pondicherry and kerala.

While its raining non-stop in chennai, the local MET department, Chennai, only announces [to the press] that there will be severe rains one more day.
The satellite pictures probably show more, and the MET dept is playing safe so that if rains stop suddenly they won't be criticized for bad forecast. They are well known for bad forecasts in previous years.

Good thing is atleast the MET puts a 'HEAVY RAINFALL WARNING' on their daily forecast website.
If its a warning, why not boldly give the warning with confidence to the press, so that people can plan in advance, schools & offices can declare holidays, etc.,

The very idea of having the MET to do early reporting and warning takes a beating with such unconfident announcements they make to secure their government jobs or avoid reputation through criticism.

Harish Palaniappan's

Chennai flooding ..not probably raining like the regional MET dept says

written on: October 27, 2006