♦ RAINFALL: Rainfall occurred at a few places over Tamilnadu and at one or two places over Lakshadweep, Kerala and southcoastal Andhra Pradesh. Weather remained mainly dry over rest parts of the country. The chief amounts of rainfall (1 cm or more) recorded at 1730 hours IST of yesterday were: Attiramapattinam10,
Puducherry6, Chennai and Vedaranniyam4 each and Nagapattinam, Cuddalore and Karaikal3 each.
♦ CLOUDS: Kalpana1: Cloud imagery at 0530 hours IST shows convective clouds over parts of Tamilnadu, Kerala, Karnataka, south Andhra Pradesh, southeast & westcentral Bay of Bengal, comorin area and southeast Arabian sea. Low/medium clouds are seen over parts of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and rest south peninsular India.
♦ The cyclonic storm 'NILAM', moved northwestwards and lay centred at 0530 hours IST of today, the 31st October 2012 near latitude 10.5°N and longitude 81.5°E about 320 km southsoutheast of Chennai. The system would move northnorthwestwards and cross north Tamil Nadu & adjoining south Andhra Pradesh coast between Cuddalore and Nellore, near Chennai by 31st October, 2012 evening.
♦ The trough of low from Lakshadweep and adjoining southeast Arabian sea to Karnataka coast persists. Under its influence, a low pressure area may develop over southeast Arabian Sea during next 24 hours.