Rain fever grips Chennai as Met dept warns of heavy rainfall in isolated places
Chennai: The people of Chennai spent another day in fear and anxiety amid constant threat of heavy rain as the city received a few intense spells of intermittent rainfall Sunday.
Fortunately, the rain itself may not have been lethal enough to cut open the scars left by last week’s rain.
The Met department issued a fresh warning Sunday putting Chennai back on a hit list with a new low lying trough over the southwest Bay of Bengal off Tamil Nadu coast. Heavy to very heavy rainfall in isolated places over north coastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry and heavy rainfall in isolated places over south and interior Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Laksha-dweep is forecast for Monday.
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The Nungambakkam station received close to 5 cm of rainfall from Saturday midnight to Sunday late evening. The city received widespread rains from light to moderate for most part of the day not allowing the sun to pop up.
Luckily, there wasn’t as much rainfall in the catchment areas of the Chembrambakkam reservoir, which is brimming. It was when the floodgates of this reservoir were opened that most parts of South Chennai got marooned causing maximum damage. The catchments received just 2 cm of rainfall on Sunday.
