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The Climate of Tamil Nadu, India is generally tropical and features fairly hot temperatures over the year except during the monsoon seasons. The city of Chennai lies on the thermal equator , [ 1 ] which means Chennai and Tamil Nadu does not have that much temperature variation.
The 2016–2017 drought in Tamil Nadu was a natural disaster that affected farmers in the region. It resulted from the lowest rainfall in Tamil Nadu in the past 140 years during the Northeast monsoon [1] season, leaving farmers with minimal rainfall. [2] Tragically, the drought led to numerous suicides among farmer households
Three years of failed monsoon in 2016, 2017, and 2018. The 2018 monsoon season was one of the driest ever recorded in Chennai, as only 343.7 mm of rain had fallen compared to an average of 757.6 mm, which was a 55% rainfall deficit. Additionally, the entire state of Tamil Nadu had recorded a 23% rainfall deficit in that season. [11]
In January 2016, the state government issued a detailed final statement which said 421 people in Tamil Nadu had died of flood-related causes between 28 October, when the first monsoonal rains had arrived in earnest, through 31 December; [note 1] [1] [3] [4] [6] [32] [58] [59] however, relief workers alone had reported hundreds more who were ...
In Tamil Nadu, damage was estimated more than Rs 1000 crore (US$155 million). [33] As a deep depression, the system lashed the coasts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, damaging infrastructure and taking the lives of 22 people. [31] On December 2, the cyclone hit the Lakshadweep islands, suffering more than Rs 500 crore (US$77.5 million) loss. [38]
The teaser trailer of the film unveiled on 21 September 2017 (coinciding Atlee's birthday) [100] and became the most-viewed Indian movie teaser with 34.6 million views, surpassing Kabali (2016) [101] and Vivegam (2017), [102] and became the first Indian movie teaser to get 1 million likes.
Post-GST launch on 1 July 2017, gross jumped to 137.44 per cent of net for all films. [1] [2] The state legislature passed the Tamil Nadu Local Bodies Entertainment Tax Act to repeal the Act of 1939. According to the Ormax Media industry report, the Tamil film segment registered domestic net box office receipts of ₹1,191 crore.
Kaala was released in more than 700 screens in Tamil Nadu. [62] It recorded lowest advance bookings, a first time for a Rajinikanth starrer. [63] Kaala is the first Indian film ever to be released in Saudi Arabia, following the country lifting its ban on public theatres in December 2017. [64] [65]