Chennai: Heavy rains lashed Chennai city and its suburbs since early today morning.
Met office attributed it to the convective activity and said moderate rains were likely to continue.
The rains, which started early in the morning, almost lashed non-stop leaving several arterial and interior roads water-logged causing hardship to the office-goers.
The Nungambakkam observatory in the city received 6.3 cm of rains during the last 24 hrs ending at 0830 hrs this morning, while the suburban Meenambakkam recorded 4.4 cm rains.
As the distribution of pongal hamper, including Rs 2,500 commenced across the State, ration cardholders braving the heavy showers lined up in front of the PDS shops to receive the gift hampers as per the tokens issued by the government.
Met office said due to the air pattern and the convective activity heavy rain is likely to occur at isolated places over Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi and Ramanathapuram districts of Tamilnadu.
For Chennai city, the sky condition is likely to be generally cloudy with light to moderate rain and heavy rain at times or thundershowers in some areas.
Thunderstorm with moderate rain is likely to occur at many places over coastal Tamilnadu, Puducherry and Karaikal area.
Light to moderate rain is also likely to occur at many places over interior Tamilnadu during the next 24 hours.