Chennai: Just when the city's residents - after welcoming first showers of the monsoon and later praying the downpours would stop - began to think the rain had receded, the Met office on Friday predicted more rainfall on Saturday. The rain, however, will be isolated.
Chennai needs less than 6cm rain over the next three days till midnight on Monday to post its wettest November of the century, the current record being November, 1918, when the city recorded 108cm.
This year, Chennai recorded 114cm since October, with November alone accounting for 102.4cm.
"There is a good chance the city will record enough rainfall to breach the previous record," weather blogger Pradeep John said.
Dry weather over the past few days has allowed Corporation of Chennai and other agencies to carry out relief work and more rain is bound to be a setback to the post-flood operations.
"A trough of low pressure over the southeast Bay of Bengal is likely to bring isolated rainfall to the city on Saturday," said S R Ramanan, director of Area Cyclone Warning Centre, under the office of the deputy director general of meteorology.
The city did not record any rainfall on Friday, but temperatures remained relatively pleasant. The Met office recorded a maximum of 30.1oC and a minimum 23.5oC through the day. It forecast a maximum temperature of 31oC and a minimum of 25oC on Saturday, with the skies being mainly or generally cloudy and with chances of rain.
Rainfall is likely to pick up on Sunday and intensify over the following days.
Weather blogger John said rainfall was likely to peak during the start of the week and last till Wednesday.
"There are chances that the low pressure area could develop into a depression and bring copious rain," he said. There could be showers in the city starting late evening and at night on Saturday."
The Met office has predicted fairly widespread rain on Sunday and widespread rain on Monday.
Source : Times of India
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