The Penang government has refuted claims by the Meteorological Department that the state suffered the heaviest rainfall in September 1995, and not this year.

"I want to show figures, we will speak based on figures," Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng told a press conference in Komtar today.

Citing a chart by the Penang Water Authority that said Penang recorded 1,162 mm of rain in September this year, compared to only 482 mm in the corresponding period 22 years ago, Lim said this clearly showed that the figure given by the Meteorological Department was inaccurate.

"There was 100 percent heavier rainfall this year compared to 1995," said the DAP secretary-general...