Heavy rain in the city. Scene at Anna Salai on Friday.
| Photo Credit: M. VEDHAN

The cloudy weather on Friday morning turned pleasant and beautiful for the city residents from noon onwards as showers lashed many parts of Chennai.

Chennai which is usually gripped by searing heat in the month of May has got a lot of respite this summer due to pleasant weather and intermittent rains. On Friday, while the maximum temperature was 34 degree Celsius, the minimum was 28-29 degree Celsius in Chennai.

For the next 24 hours, Chennai and its neighbourhood areas is likely to be cloudy. Some of the places is likely to have thunderstorm and lightning and light to moderate rains.

Meteorological department said there is likely to be light to moderate rains over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal on Saturday as well. There may be heavy rains in isolated places over Nilgiris, Theni, Tenkasi, Kanniyakumari and Ghat areas of Coimbatore and Tirunelveli districts.

“The Southwest monsoon has been active and the impact of it is why we witnessing these spells of rains,” an official said.

Rains lashed a lot of places in south Tamil Nadu and in a few locations in the north Tamil Nadu, as recorded by the Meteorological department for a 24-hour period ending at 8.30 a.m. on Friday. Some of the ghat areas in Coimbatore and Tirunelveli witnessed very heavy rains. In isolated places over Nilgiris, Theni and Tenkasi districts too, heavy rains were recorded.

Chinnakalar in Coimbatore district had the maximum rainfall of 13 cm and this was followed by Nalumukku in Tirunelveli district, Valparai PTO in Coimbatore district, Oothu in Tirunelveli district which recorded 12 cm of rain over a 24-hour period ending at 8.30 a.m. on Friday.