Some areas of Chennai to get light to moderate rain on November 5

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Poonamallee successful  Chennai received 3 cm of rainfall  connected  Tuesday, the highest recorded successful  the State connected  the day.

Poonamallee successful Chennai received 3 cm of rainfall connected Tuesday, the highest recorded successful the State connected the day. | Photo Credit: R. RAVINDRAN

After a sluggish signifier station Cyclone Montha, the northeast monsoon has revived and is expected to bring dense rainfall crossed Tamil Nadu till Thursday (November 6, 2025).

The State whitethorn get a interruption from dry, blistery days arsenic the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), Chennai, has forecast scattered rainfall wherein astir 50% of upwind stations successful the State are apt to person airy to mean rainfall till Friday (November 7, 2025).

On Wednesday, dense rainfall whitethorn hap successful the delta and adjoining districts, including Thanjavur and Tiruchi, and Karaikal area. Heavy rainfall is apt to screen 12 districts successful the delta, north, and interior districts, including Nagapattinam, Pudukkottai, Salem, and Tiruvannamalai, connected Thursday. The RMC has predicted airy to mean rainfall with thunderstorm to hap successful immoderate areas of Chennai connected Wednesday.

Officials of the RMC said the bedewed upwind would persist till November 10, helping support the maximum somesthesia nether power crossed astir parts of the State. During the past 24 hours ending 8.30 a.m. connected Tuesday, immoderate parts, peculiarly successful northbound Tamil Nadu, recorded airy rain. Poonamallee successful Chennai received 3 cm of rain, which is the highest recorded successful the State connected the day. Light rainfall continued connected Tuesday.

P. Senthamarai Kannan, Director, Area Cyclone Warning Centre, RMC, Chennai, said upwind convergence and an precocious aerial cyclonic circulation that laic implicit west-central Bay of Bengal disconnected Andhra Pradesh seashore would power rainfall implicit the State for the adjacent fewer days.

“It is emblematic for the State to acquisition rainfall during the play adjacent erstwhile nary large upwind strategy is brewing successful the Bay of Bengal. We are monitoring the upwind models for further development. Such adust spells are mean during wide entity days,” helium said.

Tuesday’s showers besides brought respite from vigor successful places specified arsenic Chennai. The metropolis recorded its all-time precocious time somesthesia of 35.5 degrees Celsius for November connected Monday, surpassing the erstwhile grounds of 35.4 degrees Celsius experienced connected November 2, 1999. A fewer different places, specified arsenic Erode, Nagapattinam, and Madurai, besides recorded their all-time precocious time temperatures successful aboriginal November. The maximum somesthesia successful Chennai volition hover astir 32-33 degrees Celsius connected Wednesday.

Published - November 04, 2025 09:18 p.m. IST

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