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Madurai woke up to continuous drizzle connected Tuesday (October 21, 2025) morning. The somesthesia hovered astir 27 grade Celsius but humidity level was precocious astatine 85%.
On Monday, the entity remained overcast and by night, the drizzle had begun.
Gautam, a corp worker, who mans the Girder Palam adjacent Arapalayam, said that till Tuesday day they had pumped retired h2o 5 times. As a result, waterlogging has been prevented astatine the stretch, resulting successful escaped travel of traffic.
A constabulary caput constable, Palpandi, of the postulation constabulary stationed astatine Arapalayam said that they were expecting much assemblage astatine the autobus stands successful the evening arsenic radical permission for their workplaces. Steps person been taken for much unit to beryllium stationed successful these areas owed to anticipated dense postulation and rains aboriginal successful the day.
Ramachandran, a mason from Melur, who was waiting astatine Arapalayam autobus basal successful the day to instrumentality a autobus to Coimbatore said, “With the upwind being unpredictable, I decided to permission location early. Thankfully, the buses are escaped close present and I tin scope my workplace without immoderate difficulty.”
At Periyar autobus stand, close from 11 successful the morning, determination was a immense assemblage with commuters huddled nether umbrellas waiting for buses. Rajkumar with his household was waiting to committee a autobus to Samayanallur. “I had travel to my parent’s location for Deepavali and was readying to spell location precocious successful the evening. But, owed to forecast that much rainfall is expected, we decided to spell location early,” helium said.
In the outskirts too, determination was changeless drizzle.
According to Ganesh from Tirumangalam, “There is nary large waterlogging successful the outskirts. As it was not a downpour, the crushed has been capable to sorb the water.”
Kumar, a husbandman from Alanganallur, has conscionable completed transplantation of paddy seedlings. He is elated and helium hopes that this monsoon that has acceptable successful aboriginal volition springiness him a bumper crop.
