Rain continues to batter Western region

According to weathermen, South-West monsoon has still been vigorous over South interior Karnataka. Western and Southern regions have already been recording heavy rainfall. However, Chennai city remained to be a spectator with some places having recorded a moderate rain. 

An official from the RMC said, “Now the North South trough has shifted further west and is running closer to the west coast, which has shifted the rain bands also further west from the interiors of Tamil Nadu.” 

As long as the wind pattern was Westerlies, Chennai and the other coastal areas stood a good chance with these convective storms, now the winds are completely Easterlies creating a NorthEast monsoon type of weather and bringing some light passing spell of rain at times, the weatherman added. 

K Srikanth, a city based weather blogger, said, “Such convective thunderstorms season for Tamil Nadu are no different as well.  Things will start to gradually slow down with possibly South Tamil Nadu and places along the Western Ghats getting some moderate spells of rains for the next couple of days.” 

He added that north Tamil Nadu will start to see much less rain in particular when compared to the coastal areas around Chennai.