Incessant rain causes water-logging at several parts of Chennai. IMD has predicted light to moderate rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places and extremely heavy falls at isolated places over north coastal Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, north interior Tamil Nadu. (Picture: ANI)Chennai rains live, Chennai weather Today November 11 Live Updates: Depression in the Bay of Bengal caused heavy rains in Tamil Nadu last night. There were water-loggings in several parts of Chennai due to incessant rain. Thunderstorm with heavy to very heavy rain is likely to occur at isolated places over Thiruvallur, Chennai, Chengalpattu, and Kanchipuram districts of Tamil Nadu within the next three hours, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) in its latest update said.
The IMD said the weather system was moving west-northwestwards at a speed of 21 km per hour. It lay about 170 km east-southeast of Chennai and 170 km east of Puducherry at 5.30 am. The weather department said it was likely to continue moving west-northwestwards and cross north Tamil Nadu and adjoining Andhra Pradesh coasts between Karaikal and Sriharikota, close to the north of Puducherry, by Thursday evening. IMD has predicted light to moderate rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places and extremely heavy falls at isolated places over north coastal Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, north interior Tamil Nadu.
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The Depression over southwest Bay of Bengal lies about 140 km southeast of Chennai,to cross b/w north TN-south Andhra Pradesh around Chennai by today evening. Strong winds to prevail, extremely heavy to heavy rainfall likely to occur in 6 districts:Dy Director General, IMD-Chennai (ANI)
Thunderstorm with heavy to very heavy rain is likely to occur at isolated places over Thiruvallur, Chennai, Chengalpattu and Kanchipuram districts of Tamil Nadu within next three hours (issued at 3:55 am): IMD (ANI)
Tamil Nadu has recorded 50 per cent plus rainfall above normal during the ongoing North East monsoon season from October 1 till date and 53 of the 90 key reservoirs crossed 76 per cent storage, authorities here said on Wednesday. During this period, the rainfall recorded in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry was 38 CM, which is 51 per cent above normal, 25 CM being the usual level. As regards Chennai district, for the same period, the experienced downpour was 61 CM while the usual is 41 CM, which is 50 per cent above normal, Deputy Director General of Meteorology, S Balachandran told reporters in Chennai. (PTI)
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