{"id":13441,"date":"2022-06-20T09:12:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T03:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/?p=13441"},"modified":"2022-06-20T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T03:55:00","slug":"widespread-thunderstorm-lashes-chennai-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/widespread-thunderstorm-lashes-chennai-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Widespread thunderstorm lashes Chennai city"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First widespread thunderstorm of the season lashes Chennai city with few areas recording 100-130mm of rainfall in span of 12hrs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chennai city saw its first proper widespread thunderstorm of the season as the westerlies at mid-level strengthened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thunderstorm season which was expected to start by june 8-10 got delayed due to erratic wind pattern at mid level of troposphere .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However as the westerlies gradually strengthened, thunderstorms easily managed to reach the coast and gave a good amount of rainfall to the city and suburban areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many areas in city have reported rainfall in range of 70mm-130mm in single night itself against the average of month of June which is around 55-60mm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"804\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"13444\" src=\"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/a1-804x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/a1-804x1024.jpg 804w, https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/a1-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/a1-768x978.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/a1.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"934\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"13445\" src=\"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/a2-934x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/a2-934x1024.jpg 934w, https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/a2-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/a2-768x842.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/a2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 934px) 100vw, 934px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s in store for next few days:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With gradual strengthening of westerly winds at mid-level of troposphere, Chennai city and surroundings areas will witness scattered thunderstorms mainly during evening and night for next 4-5days!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First widespread thunderstorm of the season lashes Chennai city with few areas recording 100-130mm of rainfall in span of 12hrs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-57","category-swm-2022"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13447,"href":"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13441\/revisions\/13447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}