With the northeast monsoon intensifying, Met officials have predicted more rain or thundershowers on Thursday in most places over the northern coast, southern Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
Isolated instances of heavy to very heavy rainfall are also likely over these places.
“An upper air cyclonic circulation is bringing the rains,” said S. Balachandran, Director, Area Cyclone Warning Centre, Chennai.
On Wednesday morning, it was lying over Sri Lanka and the adjoining southwest bay. “The rains are likely to continue for one or two days and the circulation is not likely to intensify under current conditions,” he explained.
For Chennai city, the sky condition is likely to be generally cloudy with intermittent spells of rain or thundershowers likely at times.
The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 26 and 23 degree Celsius, respectively. “Compared to Monday, Chennai had lesser rains on Wednesday. They came in spells and we did have gaps in-between,” he noted.
