Chennai has been gradually coming back to normalcy after bracing up the historical rainfall for a week. The heavy monsoon downpour has triggered a massive disruption to normal lives and the rainfall had brought back the memories of the 2015 floods. Chennai had recorded heavy rainfall for the first time since 2015 and besides Chennai, several parts of the state had also received incessant rainfall during the current spell. 

After the episodes of rainfall and disruption, Chennai had on Friday wakened up with a respite and with a bright sunrise as the downpour had shown the signs of gradual mitigation. Earlier, India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said that the rainfall will subside from Friday. Speaking to the media, S Balachandran, Deputy Director-General of the IMD, has said, "From Friday onwards, there are chances of reduction in rainfall." As per the IMD forecast, Chennai and its suburbs would witness cloudy skies and light to moderate rainfall for the next 48 hours. 

However, though Chennaiites started Thursday with a respite, the city is surfaced with a fresh warning as a new low-pressure area has been predicted to form over the south Andaman sea on Saturday- November 13. The IMD has said that the low-pressure system was formed over the south Andaman sea and adjoining coast of Thailand around 8.30 am on Saturday. 

In its bulletin issued on Saturday morning, the IMD has said that the system was likely to move west-northwestwards and concentrate into a depression over the north Andaman Sea and adjoining the southeast Bay of Bengal by November 15. The agency further said that it will then likely continue to move west-northwestwards, intensify further and reach near the Andhra Pradesh Coast around November 18. 

Reacting to the fresh warning, the weather watchers had said the low-pressure area would bring heavy rainfall over the coast of Andhra Pradesh and cited that there are more rains in the store for Chennai as the system would bring light to moderate downpour. It has been predicted that apart from Chennai, several parts of north Tamil Nadu will receive rainfall. 

The weather watchers further said that the system would more likely get intensified as a cyclone as it makes way towards Andhra Pradesh. However, there are many chances that it may get weakened once it nears the coast and makes landfall. By affirming that there are more rains for Chennai in the wake of this new system, the weather watchers have said that the rainfall will not be as incessant and disruptive as the downpour that the city had received this week.