As predicted by the meteorological department, the Northeast monsoonal clouds had brought in huge rainfall to the city of Chennai and its suburbs for the second consecutive day as the residents of the city had the mixed scenes of witnessing the rainfall on one hand and hosting the water stagnation on the other hand where most of the roads and streets have been occupied by the rain water that had somehow pictured the lag of preparedness. 

While showered by the heavy rainfalls for the past two days, the weather experts had stated that the current trend of rainfall will most likely to continue for the next few days that has been expected to rise the ground water level in the city by lowering the prevailing water shortage and supply. The downtown areas of the city including Anna nagar, Nungambakkam, T Nagar, Alandur had seen good spell of rainfall while the suburban areas like OMR, Meenambakkam had accounted for similar pattern of rains that lasted over midnight.

As the city of Chennai had been showered by Bay of Bengal, most of the districts of the state had received and have been predicted to receive rainfalls in next twenty four hours as the regional meteorological department had cited that most of the northern and western districts will account for heavy to very heavy rainfalls while the rest of the districts will be drizzled with average rainfall. The department had further revealed that for the past 24 hours, districts like Tuticorin and Nagercoil had witnessed heavy rainfalls whereas Kancheepuram and Tiruvarur had watered with average rainfall.

Earlier, the meteorological department had cited that the Chennai city had received 44.3mm of rainfall in June prior to the southwest monsoon while during the monsoon, the city has been recorded with 143.2mm and 121.1mm rainfall for the month of July and August respectively whereas the month of September had recorded with highest amount of rainfall in the tenure of the monsoon where it had recorded with 184mm of rainfall, that had collectively watered and lifted the city from water scarcity.

The officials stated that while Chennai has been recorded with 30% of surplus rainfall, the rest of the state had accounted with 17% of increased level of rainfall which has been registered as the much needed replacement for the city and the state which has been dried out with huge rainfall deficit.