Amid having brief respites from the incessant rainfall, Chennai is still yet to come out of the warning issued by the weather department. As the city has been bracing up the historical downpour for the past few days, the prediction of more rainfall had brought a red alert warning to Chennai and the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted that Chennai will witness thunderstorms with heavy to very heavy rains in the city on November 11, Thursday while several parts of the city had recorded rainfall on November 10. 

According to reports, the IMD had predicted that sky condition in Chennai will be generally cloudy on November 11 and thunderstorms with heavy to very heavy rains will occur at isolated places. In a bulletin, IMD has said that the maximum and minimum temperatures will be around 26 degree Celcius and 24 degree Celsius respectively. Several areas of the city have still been inundated and relief works are being carried out to aid and evacuate the affected people. 

Besides Chennai, the IMD had also predicted thunderstorms with extremely heavy rain at isolated places over delta districts - Villupuram, Cuddalore, Pudukottai, Sivaganga, Ramanathapuram, Karaikal, and Puducherry and over some southern districts. The department has said in its bulletin that, "Thunderstorm with heavy to very heavy rain is likely to occur at a few places over Tirunelveli, Tenkasi, Kanyakumari, Virudhunagar, Ariyalur, Madurai, Perambalur, Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur, and Chengalpattu districts. 

As the sequel of the red alert warning, several districts in Tamil Nadu including Chennai, Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur, Chengalpet, Nagapattinam, Cuddalore, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, and Mayiladuthurai had declared holiday for the educational institutions. Chief Minister MK Stalin has on Wednesday resumed his review in Chennai for the fourth consecutive day and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Tamil Nadu Police are instructed to be alert to respond to the rainfall and its damages. 

Earlier, In its official bulletin, the meteorological department has said the cyclone circulation over the South Bay of Bengal and adjoining the South Andaman sea, extending up to 5.8 kilometres above the sea level, persists. Under its influence, a low-pressure area is very likely to form over the southeast Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood during the next 24 hours. It is likely to move west-northwestward, concentrate into a depression and reach near north Tamil Nadu coast by November 11, early morning and bring widespread rainfall in several regions of the state. 

As of Tuesday, Over 1,000 residents in Chennai have been sheltered in 48 relief camps and a total of 3,58,500 food pockets have been provided. Over 300 people have been evacuated from the districts of Kancheepuram, Tiruvannamalai, Chengalpet, and Tiruvallur and they have been sheltered in ten camps and the government has also kept the teams of Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue services ready to address the imminent threat brought by heavy downpour and chilling weather. 

The 24x7 state control room has been installed in Chennai and in the affected districts and the people can reach the control room by dialling the toll-free numbers '1070' and '1077'. The residents can also get in touch with the authorities of Greater Chennai Corporation by using the 1913 toll-free number. The government has also conducted 200 special monsoon medical camps in Chennai in which 3,776 people had received medical assistance so far and the civic body has said that a total of 152 fever cases, 165 cases related to skin infections, and over 2,000 other cases were treated.