Rain and thundershowers continue to lash Chennai and neighbourhood this (Friday) morning even as the Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai, has forecast cloudy skies into mid-noon and possibility of light to moderate thunderstorm across some areas of the city.

Elsewhere in Tamil Nadu, the North-East monsoon is predicted to maintain its current active phase with a disproportionate bias to the southern two-thirds of the region with heavy rain and thunderstorms forecast to occur to the South-West and Mid-West as well as South-East.

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