India, Sept. 1 -- A cloudburst in Chennai's Manali, in the northern region of the city, has brought intense rainfall. Heavy rainfall of 27 cm, 26 cm & 23 cm in three different places in the city in Manali, New, Manali Town and Wimco Nagar respectively as on August 31, according to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD).

The cloud burst occurred over the Manali area and its neighbouring places late night on August 30, recording three extremely heavy, eight very heavy and 28 heavy rainfall events during the 24-hours ending at 8.30 on August 31 morning.

"There were six reports of rain spells of over 10 cm/hr that qualify the WMO (World Meteorological Organisation) and & IMD's definition of cloud burst ..," the weather body said. A clou...