Chennai is set to continue to sizzling as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heat wave conditions in north Tamilnadu till Tuesday. Meanwhile according to a weather bulletin issued by the Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai on Sunday night, severe heat wave conditions will prevail over isolated pockets of Tiruvallur, Vellore and Tiruvannamalai districts in north Tamilnadu.
The bulletin reads “Heat wave condition likely to prevail at some parts over North Tamilnadu (Chennai, Kanchipuram, Cuddalore, Villupuram, Puducherry, Nagapattinam, Ariyalur, Perambalur, Karur and Trichy districts)”. Furthermore the maximum daytime temperature in Chennai is likely to hover around 41 degree Celsius for the next two days and it also warned members of the public to not expose themselves to direct sunlight between 11 am and 4 pm to avoid sunstroke.
Moreover northern Tamilnadu is expected to wilt due to heat, the Met department has also forecast light to moderate showers in some regions in Tamilnadu like Coimbatore, Nilgiris, Salem, Theni, Dindigul, Sivagangai, Pudukkottai and Kanyakumari districts. Kalavai in Vellore district recorded four centimetres of rainfall on Sunday, while Devala (Nilgiris), Karaikkudi (Sivagangai), Salem and Omalur (Salem) recorded two centimeters each of rainfall on Sunday. Erode’s Gobichettipalayam recorded one centimeter of rain on Sunday.
