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North-East monsoon rains have commenced over Tamil Nadu, Kerala and adjoining areas of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday.
Rainfall received during the 24 hours ending in the morning was (in cm) is as follows:
Machilipatnam and Vallam-9 each; Tambaram and Mettupalayam-7 each; Chembarambakkam-5; Papanasam, Sendurai and Ariyalur-4 each; Kakinada and Tiruchirappalli-3 each; Kozhikode and Puducherry-2 each; and Chennai, Kannur, Tondi, Pamban and Cuddalore-1 each.
May spread outThe rains are forecast to propagate northward along the Tamil Nadu coast during the next few days, an India Met Department update said.
Heavy rain would occur at isolated places over coastal Tamil Nadu on Thursday. A similar forecast is valid for isolated places over coastal Tamil Nadu and Kerala for the two days that follow.
On Wednesday, a storm in the form of a depression developed over East Arabian Sea, which triggered a rush of easterly winds across the peninsula and the Bay of Bengal precipitating the rain.
The Met said that the depression would intensify into a deep depression and further into a tropical cyclone in the next two to three days, but away from the Indian coast.
‘Low’ persistsThis will help sustain the easterly flows and keep the North-East monsoon steady, pushing rains into more parts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
The rush of the flows caused the counterpart low-pressure area over South-West Bay of Bengal to drift partly into land over Sri Lanka, compromising its potential to grow.
It may weaken around the region, but still pilot a wave of rainfall along the Tamil Nadu coast towards the north.
The residual flows are later forecast to converge off the Odisha coast and propel rains into the North Coastal Andhra Pradesh as well.
An extended forecast valid for the next seven days (until November 4) said that rain or thundershowerswould occur at many places over South India.
Rain, snowThe rains would be isolated over the rest of Peninsular India and the East Coast during this period.
Meanwhile in North-West India, a western disturbance located over north Pakistan is expected to impact weather all the way into East and North-East India.
Rain and thundershowers have been lashing isolated places over Jammu and Kashmir. Thundershowers occurred over West Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi and West Uttar Pradesh.
Emerging hostile weather is expected to spread out into East and North-East India. Thundersquall/hailstorm is forecast for part of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and the North-East.
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