Thunderstorms breaking up into showers in Bengaluru has delayed start to proceedings of the second day of the second cricket test between India and South Africa.

They were remainders of a line-up of cloud formations invading the Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu coast after a prevailing well-marked low-pressure area in the South-West Bay of Bengal hit the Lanka coast first.

Forecasts suggest that the thunderstorms in Bengaluru may relent for sometime in the morning but open up again through the afternoon.

Earlier in the morning, the thunderstorms began drifting to over entire Sri Lanka and later over coastal and much of interior of Tamil Nadu.

Some of them had entered Bengaluru and Hosur in South Interior Karnataka and Nellore and Tirupathi coastal Andhra Pradesh.

The clouds are lately found floating over Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh, Tumakur and Mysuru in Karnataka as well as over the ghats separating interior Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

A cloud bank had left North-East Sri Lanka and is now entering Kanyakumari, Nagercoil and Thiruvananthapuram to the extreme South of the Indian Peninsula.

Meanwhile, India Met Department is looking out for signs of intensification of the well-marked 'low' into a depression, sources said.

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