CHENNAI: The city and its suburbs received a bout of heavy rainfall on Thursday evening after a sizzling day bringing some relief to the residents.
The rain was however not widespread in the city.
Private weather blogger, Tamil Nadu Weatherman tweeted that, "In 1 hour, South Chennai & suburbs got high intensity rains & now the clouds have reached sea."
Perumbakkam received the highest amount of rainfall of 68 mm.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast that the maximum temperatures are likely to be below normal to near normal for the next two weeks over most parts of the country except east & adjoining northwest India, where these are likely to be above normal by about 2°C during the week.
No heat wave conditions are likely to occur over any part of the country, IMD said.