Chennai, Oct 29(PTI): The North-East monsoon, which setin over Tamil Nadu last week is expected to bring in the firstwidespread spell of rains across the state and heavy showersin some places, in the next two days, the Met office here saidtoday.
Yesterday's trough of low pressure in the southwest Bayof Bengal lay over the southwest Bay off Sri Lanka and nowseen as an upper air cyclonic circulation could bring rainfallto the coastal districts in the state, the Met departmentsaid.
Heavy rainfall is likely to occur at isolated places overcoastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, it said adding rain orthundershowers could occur at a few interior places in thestate.
For Chennai and neighbourhood districts, the Met officesaid a few spells of rainfall were likely to occur. The skycondition would be generally cloudy.
As far as the rainfall recorded at 8.30 a.m today,Papanasam in Tirunelveli district and Mylaudy in Kanyakumaridistrict, received 5 cms each.
Kuzhithurai in Kanyakumari district received 4 cmsrainfall while Periyar in Theni, Manamadurai in Sivagangadistrict, Mannargudi in Tiruvarur district received one cmeach.
North-East monsoon which brings most of the rainfall tothe state has been active in the last two days, followingthe withdrawal of South-West monsoon.
The Indian Meteorological Department has forecast thatthe North-East monsoon would be "most likely normal" though ithad been deficient last year. PTI VIJSS.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.