Most of the city received mild rains that lasted throughout Sunday.
The city of Chennai is likely to receive more rain on Monday due to a convergence of the wind near the northern part of the Tamil Nadu coast that has been triggered by a cyclonic circulation, according to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). Most of the city received mild rains that lasted throughout Sunday.
The rains over Chennai will reportedly take a break after Monday and resume after a couple of days. Sunday’s rains helped lower the city’s temperature to around 26 degrees Celsius during the day. This is unusual because so far Chennai has been receiving rain only overnight and the night temperatures recorded across the city during and after the rains were around 26 degrees Celsius. On Sunday, the Chennai suburbs received slightly higher rains than the city. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast cloudy skies and thunderstorms with light to moderate rainfall in some areas of Chennai for the next two days.
The IMD also indicated that there is a cyclonic circulation over the central-eastern part of the Bay of Bengal and will cause a low pressure zone in the same region in the next 24 hours. This low pressure area will become even clearer in the next 24 hours, which has the potential to bring rain on the city in the coming days. These pre-monsoon rains are expected to occur until October 25, when the northeast monsoon is expected to arrive. Most parts of Tamil Nadu receive much of their annual share of rainfall from the northeast monsoon that begins in October and lasts through December.
According to data available with IMD, Perungalur in Pudukkottai district and Vallam in Thanjavur district received 13 cm of rain on Sunday. Keelpennathur in Thiruvannamalai district received 11 cm of rain and Thanjavur received 9 cm of rain on Sunday.
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