City to get rain for four days next week: IMD Chennai Recorded 191% Excess This Month

City to get rain for four days next week: IMD Chennai Recorded 191% Excess This Month 

TIMES NEWS NETWORK 19.10.2024

Chennai : A disturbance in the atmosphere may bring rain back to the city and north Tamil Nadu from next week. IMD officials said a trough might bring rain spells to north coastal and north interior Tamil Nadu for at least four days next week. For the next two days, the city and the suburbs may receive light to moderate intensity rain. The agency has also forecast a low pressure to form over the Bay of Bengal and intensify into a depression. Bloggers suggested that the system might skip the city. “An east-west trough may bring rainfall from Oct 21. North coastal and north interior districts may get rainfall for four days,” said an IMD official. 

The agency has also forecast that a fresh upper air cyclonic circulation is likely to form over the North Andaman Sea around Oct 20. Under its influence, a low pressure area is likely to form over the central Bay of Bengal around Oct 22. The system is likely to move northwestwards and intensify into a depression by Oct 24. Private forecasters earlier said the system might move towards the Odisha coast, which may lead to a marginal rise in temperature in the city as the winds may be concentrated around the weather system. “The system will be above our Chennai latitude when it enters the Andaman Sea. If the low pressure remains weak, it will be pushed towards Tamil Nadu by low-level easterlies. Mostly, it will intensify and move up,” blogger Pradeep John said in his post. Since Oct 1, Nungambakkam recorded 32 cm and Meenambakkam 27 cm. The Chennai subdivision recorded 30 cm, which is around 191% excess. During the same time, Tamil Nadu recorded 14 cm, around 73% excess.