Good news! Bone-dry Chennai finally gets rain, more relief in sight
Finally, some good news for bone-dry Chennai. After a record-breaking dry spell this year, rain gods have dawned upon Chennai.
This comes as a huge relief as the parched state is already battling a severe water crisis.
According to the IMD's city forecast, Chennai is likely to get thunderstorms with rain today. The Regional MeT Department has also forecast the possibility of light to moderate rainfall at isolated places over Tamil Nadu. This is expected to continue for a few more days after which heavy rains will be majorly dominant over isolated places in Tamil Nadu.
Along with water crisis, Chennai has been facing intense and prolonged heat conditions. The largely deficient pre-monsoon rainfall and insufficient northeast monsoons paved way for one of the biggest water crisis in Tamil Nadu.
Have a look at how rain gods are bringing relief in Chennai:
Heavy rains at OMR! 😍#chennairains Chennai Rains pic.twitter.com/z0y2hScLh0
— Hemanth Kumar (@TweetOfGideon) June 20, 2019
#ChennaiRains at IIT #Chennai. Finally after February is bliss to hear the sound of #Rains as per #weather blogger Ramanan. #Comk pic.twitter.com/RVznNZ13m1
— Chennairains (@ChennaiRains) June 20, 2019
First Rain! 😍
— Srinivas Jayaprakash (@CustosLegis_Jay) June 20, 2019
All of us deserve this pleasant weather after suffering a record 200 days of hot& dry weather. We need rain for recharging the ground water. Hope there are more rains over the coming weekend#chennairains #Chennai #ChennaiWaterCrisis #Monsoon #ChennaiWaterScarcity pic.twitter.com/LAxVAZzM0W
Omg, its actually #raining here in #Madipakkam! Have never been so glad to see the heavens open up, praise God! @ChennaiRains @chennaiweather #Chennairains pic.twitter.com/JBLVdZc0sv
— Hannah Lauvanya (@lauvanya) June 20, 2019
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