Heavy rain attacked several parts of the Tamil Nadu on Monday night bringing the temperature down with some notches and flood roads.
Coastal Kanyakumari received good rainfall for the fourth day in a row.
Rain which starts on Sunday night continues throughout the district with a few breaks.
While the Mukkadal Dam Water reached its full capacity with 25 feet, four of the six other dams in this district also approached their full capacity.
Kanyakumari District recorded an average rainfall of 16.95mm in 24 hours to Monday morning.
Cauvery Delta Trichy District, Tiruvarur, Thanjavur and Nagapattinam recorded stable rainfall throughout the night.
While the rainfall came as a gift for Samba’s cultivation in the early stages, rainfall could cause damage to the rice all of Kuruvai plants that had reached the harvest stage, farmers said.
In the city of Trichy, who saw heavy rain around 4pm, rainfall adds to the misery of people in the residential area where rainwater stagnates for a week.
The district records an average rainfall of 8.51mm from Sunday to Monday morning.
In the western region too, what began as a light drizzle and a sharp shower occasionally developed into heavy rain on Monday night.
Hosur Bus Stand turns into a large pool due to heavy rain.
Traffic on the Salem-Bengaluru-Chennai highway is affected for three hours.
In nilgiris, part of the wall of the old building compounds of the Ooty government medical college is damaged in the rain.
The water level in Mettur Dam rises with 5ft water content in the metor dam began to increase continuously after rain in the area of the Cauvery River.
Levels increase by five meters more than five days from October 6.
At present the water level stands at 81,5ft.
A PWD official in the Dam said, “The water level in the dam stood at 76.5ft against a full capacity of 120 feet on October 6 and on Sunday night it crossed 80 feet.” He further said that the dam now has 43.4TMC water storage against 93.5TMC full capacity.
Following heavy rain in Karnataka and Kerala, excess water from the dam was transferred to the Cauvery River.
The panel told K’Taka to release 40TMCT to the Tamil Nadu government on Monday urged the Cauvery Air Regulation Committee to ensure that the Karnataka government released 40TMCT water caused by the state.
The committee also emphasized Karnataka to release due at the end of October.
On Monday, the metur reservoir has a storage capacity of 43.43TMC by opposing a total capacity of 93.47TMCT.
The combined storage of four reservoirs, Krishnarajasagar, Kabini, Haravathi and Hemavathi on the Cauvery River in Karnataka are 79% of their total capacity.
“The state government states to the water storage status committee in Mettur and urges Karnataka to immediately release water to meet the requirements of the state in accordance with the command of the Supreme Court,” the official release said.
Kanyakumari rainfall for the fourth day in a row
