After 6 year gap, Chennai pounded by intense showers

After a gap of over six years, rain pounded Chennai and parts of Tamil Nadu on Sunday and is likely to continue till November 11 as the Indian Meteorological Department has issued a red alert.

"A fresh spell of heavy to very heavy rainfall with isolated extremely heavy rainfall is likely over Tamil Nadu and south Coastal Andhra Pradesh during 9-11 November 2021 under the influence of a likely formation of a fresh low-pressure area," IMD said in a statement, adding that a depression over the east-central Arabian Sea is also taking shape.

Since the start of the Northeast monsoon in October, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry regions have experienced about 43 per cent excess rainfall.