Heaviest rain since December 2015 inundates roads

CHENNAI: The city received its heaviest spell of rain since December 2015 on Thursday evening. Within a couple of hours, several parts of the city including Nungambakkam, Saidapet, Neelankarai, Mogappair, Chromepet and Velachery received more than 10cm rainfall.

Northern parts of the city received relatively lesser rain Weathermen have predicted more rain until the weekend.In two days, the combined level of the four city reservoirs rose from 12.4% to 17.4% of the total capacity.

Several arterial roads witnessed heavy traffic from 8pm, leaving commuters stranded.

Area cyclone warning centre director S Balachandran said, “A low pressure area has formed over the

southwest Bay of Bengal

near

Sri Lanka

. This will bring heavy rainfall in the some of the southern and delta districts on Friday . Chennai will get light showers.“

Southern and delta districts received heavy showers between 8.30am on Wednesday and 8.30am on Thursday. Palayamkottai (Tirunelveli received 13cm, Chidambaram AWS (Cuddalore), Kelambakkam (Kancheepuram) and Srivaikuntam (

Thoothukudi

received 8cm each,

Nagapattinam

and Cheranmahadevi (Tirunelveli) received 7cm each. Since October, the city has recorded excess rain at Nungambakkam and Meenambakkam. In the 14 hours until 10.30pm on Thursday , the city recorded 12cm rainfall at Nungambakkam. Ennore recorded 3cm rainfall, Madhavaram 2.5cm and Meenambakkam 9cm.

The maximum and minimum temperature on Thursday was 30.1C and 23.4C.

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