Harish Palaniappan's

If you are coming to chennai.. or trying to understand the forecast for weather in chennai.. then do yourself some good in checking weather.com or any source other than chennai meteorological department.. or sometimes read that as dont believe any of india's met departments itself.

All those lazy idiots in chennai's MET dept, will do anything to remain lazy nuts at work forever. And it is better we all started using google Earth or weather.com for weather stuff.

Yesterday, there was this 30 mins of rain with good winds and in some places it even rained ice pellets it seems. When asked, the met dept people lazily told media that they recorded nothing except a few cms of rain. To repeated questions of the nature of the rain and stuff, all they got is 'we didnt record anything'.

I even see some simple people interested to find out why it rained suddenly and google for it or ask people about it.. but met dept, hah.. they are happily sleeping noticing nothing. Who will ask.. its a government job.. and may be they will one day even say, "you still don't use google earth for these things".. Atleast if they didn't record anything, they could have always said, something like this... we are trying to understand reports from places.. but for now, we have not recorded anything since in the places where we have our weather monitoring units there wasn't anything other than rain...or whatever.

I remember .. after tsunami struck south india, a news channel (i think NDTV) did a casual interview of indian space research organization's chairman then.. and trickily the host pulled a slappy last question where she asked.. "you say you have all these satellites.. mostly weather satellites or imagery satellites..and have more plans / research stuff.. but what good was all this if you couldn't make a warning even 5 minutes before the tsunami.. or you didn't even record a tsunami". For which, the man stupidly smiled and had no useful answer.