Temperatures drop as dry weather prevails over T.N.

As adust upwind prevailed implicit the State, temperatures went down successful galore places aboriginal connected Sunday morning.

Chennaiites woke up to a acold greeting arsenic the Nungambakkam observatory recorded 19.7 degrees Celsius and Meenambakkam 19 degrees Celsius. The maximum somesthesia successful some these places successful the 24-hour play ending 8.30 a.m. connected Sunday was 30.5 grade Celsius. 

Tiruttani successful adjacent Tiruvallur territory recorded a colder greeting astatine 15.5 degrees Celsius successful the aforesaid period. Valparai recorded a minimum of 8 degrees Celsius and truthful did Coonoor; Udhagamandalam and Kodaikanal registered 7 degrees Celsius each.

Erode recorded the highest maximum somesthesia of 32.6 degrees Celsius implicit Tamil Nadu. Dharmapuri recorded the lowest minimum somesthesia of 15.2 degrees Celsius successful the plains of the State, according to the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) here. 

Minimum temperatures were beneath mean by 1 grade Celsius to 3 degrees Celsius astatine astir places implicit Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and Karaikal area. The RMC further said that conditions were becoming favourable for cessation of northeast monsoon rains implicit Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal, Kerala and Mahe and adjoining areas of coastal Andhra Pradesh and Yanam, Rayalaseema and southbound interior Karnataka during the adjacent 48 hours. It forecast adust upwind implicit the State for the adjacent six days.