Chennai: Heavy rain may lash Chennai and northern districts of Tamil Nadu from Monday as a low pressure has developed in southeast of Colombo in Sri Lanka, the weather department and bloggers have forecast.
Director of Regional Meteorological Centre S. Balachandran told pressmen that the low pressure is expected to develop into a depression during the subsequent 48 hours over the same area.
According to V.Senthilkumar, an independent weather blogger, the low pressure area is located approximately 500 km southeast of Colombo.
“This is likely to become well marked low pressure area in 24 hours and further expected to concentrate as depression. This system is expected to track towards west-north western direction and will come closer to Tamil Nadu coastal areas in 48 hours.”
He said that under this influence, medium to rather heavy rain is expected to lash over many parts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala on Sunday. T. Gokul, another weather blogger, said the southern parts of Tamil Nadu such as Kanyakumari and Rameswaram might experience heavy rain on Sunday. Chennai and northern districts may get heavy rain on Monday.
The weather department also issued an advisory to fishermen residing in coastal areas. It advised fishermen in deep sea to return to coast, as strong winds with speed reaching 45-55 kmph are likely along and off Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts.
