India Meteorological Department (IMD), Delhi, said that rain or thundershowers lashed most places over Tamil Nadu and Puducherry during this period; many places over Himachal Pradesh, South Interior Karnataka and Kerala; a few places over Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh and Lakshadweep; and isolated places over Uttarakhand, Punjab, Rayalaseema, Madhya Maharashtra and Coastal Andhra Pradesh.

The prevailing troughs in easterlies rom the Comorin area to north Coastal Tamil Nadu and another trough from Maldives area to South-East Arabian Sea off Kerala coast persist. They would continue to trigger scattered to fairly widespread rainfall, thunderstorms, lightning and isolated heavy rainfall over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and Kerala today (Tuesday) and tomorrow (Wednesday) and over Lakshadweep today.

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