Chennai Floods 2024 Wiki. The first reason is chennai’s long history of vanishing lakes and water bodies, captured by rampant and unfettered urbanisation. In 2023, numerous bursts of rain over a longer period with brief intervals caused floods.
Researchers at chennai’s anna university state in their 2021 paper that between 1893 and 2017, the area of chennai’s water bodies shrank from 12.6 square km to about 3.2 square km, paving the. ‘biggest rainfall since 2015 floods’, says weatherman the incessant rains have left chennai under sheets of.