{"id":14538,"date":"2025-08-23T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/?p=14538"},"modified":"2025-08-23T06:07:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:37:28","slug":"heavy-rains-lash-chennai-and-surrounding-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/heavy-rains-lash-chennai-and-surrounding-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rains lash Chennai and surrounding areas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chennai and its suburbs have been pounded by heavy rain today, marking the third spell since early morning. The first downpour began around 5:00 AM, followed by evening thunderstorms at 6:00 PM, and now a widespread spell that started at 2:30 AM has drenched most parts of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several areas have already recorded 60 mm or more since 8:30 AM, with some places crossing the 100 mm mark.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/radar-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/radar-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/radar-846x1024.jpg 846w, https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/radar-768x930.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/radar.jpg 1057w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Showers are expected to continue into the early hours with gradually reduced intensity. Weather conditions remain favorable for thunderstorms over Chennai and nearby regions for the next 2\u20133 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai and its suburbs have been pounded by heavy rain today, marking the third spell since early morning. The first<\/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":[94,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-94","category-swm-2025"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14538"}],"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=14538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14541,"href":"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14538\/revisions\/14541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kwschennai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}