Dec 7, 2015
El Niño’s Role in Deadly Chennai Rains
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
India
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Weather Underground

People wade through a flooded street in Chennai, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, on Wednesday, December 2, 2015. Image credit: AP.
[At Slate, Eric Holthaus] noted the well-established relationship between warming global temperatures and the intensification of short-term rainfall events, which has been observed in many parts of the globe. This effect appears especially strong in the tropics, according to a study published earlier this year in the journal Current Climate Change Reports by Paul O’Gorman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).