Can you tell me the age of the Chennai Weather research Centre?
If you think the age would be around 100, you are wrong.
Systematic meteorological observations in Chennai started
abundant beforehand than the absolute enactment of the India Meteorological
Department in 1875. The Madras Observatory, as it was accepted then, was
accustomed by Sir Charles Oakeley, the again Governor of Madras beneath the
East India Company, in 1792 "for announcement the ability of Astronomy,
Geography and Navigation in India", appearance the alpha of the history of
Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai. Oakeley was accurate by William
Petrie, a affiliate of the Madras Government, who had congenital an ample
anchor at his own amount 5 years beforehand in 1786.
The Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai is amid at 50
(New No. 6) College Road, Nungambakkam, amid Good Shepherd School and Women's
Christian College. The three meteorological centres in South India action at
Hyderabad, Bangalore and Thiruvananthapuram confined the states of Andhra
Pradesh, Karnataka, and Kerala, respectively, beneath the abstruse and
authoritative ascendancy of the Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai.
The Regional Meteorological Centre at Chennai was accustomed
on 1 April 1945 beneath a agent administrator accepted of the India
Meteorological Department to administer and alike meteorological casework in
the Southern arena of India, which covers the states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra
Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Union Territories of Pondicherry and
Lakshadweep. With the accumulation of the Regional Meteorological Centre, the
storm-warning plan for the seaports on the east bank of India from
Kalingapatnam southwards was transferred to Chennai's Meenambakkam centre in
1945. The meteorological activities were angled into abyssal and aerodynamics
for able activity of the storm-warning casework and abstracted storm-warning
centre was accustomed at Nungambakkam in 1969. The albatross of storm-warning
assignment for the ports on the west bank of India from Karwar southwards too
was transferred from Mumbai to Chennai in 1969.
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