Low pressure area to bring more pre-monsoon rain in South India

According to Skymet Satellite images, the low pressure is closing in on Tamil Nadu and would take another 36 hours to make inland appearance off Mangalore coast in Karanataka, while moving in a northwest direction. It will then re-curve and shift north-northeastwards over south interior Karantaka. In its extended forecast, Skymet Meteorology Division in India has said that the weather system could move further, in a northeast direction to reach Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh and then shift to Odisha.

The weather system after emerging in southwest Bay of Bengal last Thursday has been instrumental in increasing rainfall in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The weather forecast by Skymet Meteorology Division in India vouches for widespread rain, heavy at some places during the next 24 hours in both these states.

The extended forecast by Skymet Meteorology Division in India which will keep tracking the weather system in the following days, indicates that the low pressure may become a depression as well depending on the time during which it remains close to Kerala coast. Chances of it becoming a depression will be less if it enters the land.

This table gives the amount of rain received at some of the places in Kerala and Tamil Nadu between 8:30 am on Tuesday to 8:30 am on Wednesday.

Places	State	Amount of rain
Kanyakumari	Tamil Nadu	118.4 mm
Thiruvananthapuram	Kerala	102 mm
Kottayam	Kerala	84.2 mm
Palayankottai	Tamil Nadu	80 mm
Punalur	Kerala	68.4 mm
Pamban	Tamil Nadu	67.4 mm
Kodaikanal	Tamil Nadu	60 mm
Alapuzha	Kerala	46 mm