Thunderstorm with heavy to very heavy rain is likely to occur at isolated places over Thiruvallur, Chennai, Chengalpattu, and Kanchipuram districts of Tamil Nadu within the next three hours, the India Meteorological Department in its latest update said.
IMD has predicted light to moderate rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places and extremely heavy falls at isolated places over north coastal Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, north interior Tamil Nadu.
The streets around Hasthinapuram, close to suburban Chrompet resembled an angry speeding river, with water level raising over three-feet.
Later in a tweet, the Railways said, “We are happy to inform that there has been an improvement in the number of services from Chennai Central towards Tiruvallur and Arakkonam and only a few services are suspended for the time being.
“Depression crossed north Tamil Nadu coast close to Chennai between 1730 & 1830 hrs IST of today, the 11th November.
Depression likely to cross b/w south Andhra, north Tamil Nadu coast around Chennai by evening.
The Union Territory of Puducherry, battered by heavy rains during the last 10 days, got a respite on Thursday as the sky remained overcast and the showers stopped.
Governor Ravi discussed with CM Stalin over phone, “about the rescue and relief operations undertaken by the state government in view of the heavy rains caused by the depression in Bay of Bengal,” Raj Bhavan, Tamil Nadu tweeted.
Chennai | We’ve deployed 11 teams in TN & 2 teams in Puducherry.
Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi expressed concern on Thursday over the incessant rains in Chennai and urged party workers to help in the relief-and-rescue work.
Due to overnight rainfall, there is waterlogging in parts of Chennai today.
13 subways waterlogged will be cleared, 160 fallen trees removed.
The MET authorities have also warned against localised flooding of roads from flooding of catchment areas, waterlogging in low-lying areas leading to the closing of underpasses in urban areas, localised landslides, mudslides, and damage to vulnerable structures.
Most districts in northern Tamil Nadu including Chennai are likely to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall, Deputy Director General of Meteorology, S Balachandran said, even as the city and its suburbs received sharp showers all through the night and on Thursday morning as well.
The depression over southwest Bay of Bengal moved west-northwestwards with a speed of 21 kmph during past six hours and lay centred at 5.30 AM on Thursday over southwest Bay of Bengal, about 170 km east-southeast of Chennai and 170 km east of Puducherry, the India Meteorological Department said in a bulletin.
Tamil Nadu has recorded 50 per cent plus rainfall above normal during the ongoing North East monsoon season from October 1 till date and 53 of the 90 key reservoirs crossed 76 per cent storage, authorities here said on Wednesday.