Some parts of the southern and interior districts may receive light to moderate rain at one or two places till the weekend. The Meteorological Department also expects a low pressure area to form over southeast Bay of Bengal on Monday, an unusual weather phenomenon for this time of the year.
Meteorological Department officials said 12 districts, including Dindigul, Ramanathapuram, Tirunelveli, Madurai and Cuddalore, and Puducherry and Karaikal, might receive isolated rainfall due to easterly wind convergence.
During the past 24 hours ending at 8.30 a.m. on Friday, only the weather station in Papanasam in Tirunelveli district recorded 1 cm of rainfall. Chidambaram recorded light rainfall till 5.30 p.m. on Friday.