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The deep depression over North Tamil Nadu has weakened into a depression and lay centred 80 km east of Tirupattur and 60 km South-South-East of Vellore this morning.
It is expected to move westwards into the interior over North Tamil Nadu and continue to bring moderate to heavy showers over the region.
It features a wind speed of 40 km/hr to 50 km/hr gusting to 60 km/hr.
It would weaken as a well-marked low-pressure area within the next 12 hours and travel towards Coastal Karnataka and into the Arabian Sea.
HEAVY RAINMeanwhile, heavy to very heavy rain lashed isolated places over Rayalaseema and Tamil Nadu during the day yesterday.
Among these are (in cm): Tirupattur-16; Tirupathy and Vellore-8 each; Cuddalore-7; Nungambakkam-6; Tiruthani and Dharamapuri 5 each; Arogyavaram, Meenambakkam and Salem-4 each; Kavali-3; Nellore-2 and Ongole, Pudducherry, Thiruvananthapurm and Karaikal-1 each.
Satellite pictures this morning showed convective (rain-producing) clouds massed up over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalaseena, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathawada, Konkan-Goa, South and East-central Arabian Sea, the Comorin area and South and Central Bay of Bengal.
SPREADS OUTThis means that the clouds have since spread out to all sides around the core of the depression and would bring showers into these regions.
There is no forecast for heavy rain anywhere but India Met Department said that rain or thundershowers would occur at many places over South Peninsular India.
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