Yesterday's well-marked low-pressure area has weakened into a conventional low-pressure area, which was located this morning over Lakshadweep and the adjoining seas off the Kerala-Karnataka coasts. Satellite pictures showed the associated cloud cover spreading out over Peninsular and adjoining Central and East India under the influence of opposing Westerly winds.

CLOUD COVER

Clouds have spread thin over an entire swathe of area from Thiruvananthapuram to Mumbai on the West Coast and covering most of Maharashtra, Telangana, East Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Jharkhand. Dense clouds are spotted along the West Coast from Udupi in coastal Karnataka to Kozhikode/ Kochi in Kerala. Some of it strayed inland from Mangaluru-Kannur into Tumakuru in interior Karnataka.

Only sparse clouds are spotted over interior Tamil Nadu, while the skies over the state's coastal region, especially to the South-East where it rained heavily for a few days, have cleared up.

THUNDERSHOWERS LIKELY

An India Met Department (IMD) update said thunderstorms had lined up over South interior Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry from 11 am yesterday to 5.30 am this morning. The cloud cover has helped bring down maximum temperatures over South interior Karnataka, Maharashtra, and parts of adjoining Central India to below the 30 deg Celsius-mark at noon.

The IMD has forecast the possibility of thundershowers for the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala for the rest of today. The week ending Wednesday saw excess showers being recorded over Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Lakshadweep, thanks to an untimely depression which lies weakened as a 'low' currently.

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