From midnight until now, Chennai has been experiencing heavy rainfall, resulting in significant accumulation in various areas. In response to heavy rainfall causing waterlogging across Chennai, the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board has initiated a comprehensive operation to address the situation. The brand association of Ramanan to weather forecast has become so high that people attribute the rains to him and thank him for forcing authorities to declare holidays for continuous days. Different parts of Chennai saw মাতৃ দিবসের শুভেচ্ছা light showers in the morning while the weather office had forecast cloudy skies with occasional spells of rain in the city. Weathermen say that monsoon has again become active over south India as impact cyclone Biparjoy faded away. IMD has forecast rainfall this week over some parts of Tamil Nadu, Rayalaseema, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. On Wednesday, „heavy rain is likely to occur at isolated places over Cuddalore, Mayiladuthurai, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam and Pudukkottai districts of Tamilnadu and Karaikal area.

„Light to moderate rain is likely to occur at one or two places over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal area,” the Regional Meteorological Centre of the Indian Meteorological Department said in a press release. The „rainfall activity” is likely to intensify from Wednesday, December 7. As expected, the rains may hit the areas of North Tamil Nadu coast, which may include the areas of Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Rayalaseema. Though the first ODI match, between India and Australia, took place yesterday and the players had to wait for the rain to stop and resume their game. Though the weather had been clear, and India won the match by 26 runs today over Australia. Chennai has been witnessing stuffy rainfall since past few days.

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There has been some major continuous rainfall yesterday in the areas of Minambakkam and Nungambakkam regions with 15mm and 10mm of rain. Also, there were other areas of Chennai where low-density rainfall was observed. The water level of Ganga is continuously rising.

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Light rain and thunderstorm were witnessed yesterday in some areas of Chennai. But there are chances for the weather to get deteriorate in the coming days. Generally, Chennai is known for its hot climate and this dip in the temperature has shocked all the citizens there. Few are enjoying the chilled breeze and some have got their meme material for social media. The internet has been a true source of entertainment these days, be it any bizarre combination of food or trolling something, netizens have got their ways to engage people. On a serious note, IMD has advised fishermen not to venture into the southwest and western central or Bay of Bengal between November 20 to November 21.

On December 8, strong and gusty winds are likely along with moderate rain. The intensity of rain is likely to increase from Friday and the city is expected to see heavy downpours on December 9 and 10. The RMC has forecast a decrease in rainfall from Sunday, December 11 onwards.

Some suburbs like Alwarthirunagar and Madhavaram got heavy spells. Day’s maximum temperature would hover at 33°c, while minimum temperature is predicted to be 26°c. As Chennai witnessed a dip in the temperature, Twitteratis started flooding social media with hilarious memefest sessions. A recently built wooden ramp for the disabled at Chennai’s Marina beach was damaged by intense waves on account of cyclone Mandous Friday morning. We bring to you all the latest updates from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Painting a bleak picture, the visuals doing rounds on social media showed the many public utilities on the beach bearing brunt of the storm. The joy wheel for children jutting out of the water, shanties covered and floating as their owners wore sad looks, besides swings and chairs standing aloof without their occupants at the famous beach that every day sees thousands of visitors.