CHENNAI: Another heavy spell of rain cannot be ruled out in the coming days, with a depression developing 1,200 km south east of Chennai in the Bay of Bengal.

India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials, however, said there would not be rain in the next couple of days as the depression had remained stationary through the course of the day. The depression had formed earlier in the day over the Bay of Bengal and was threatening to move towards the Tamil Nadu coastline. Officials said that this movement did not take place and the city and the rest of coastal Tamil Nadu were safe from heavy rain for a few more days to come. However, if the depression moved towards the coast without weakening, it could bring rain.

Officials said that the depression would gradually move towards the Tamil Nadu coast in a West to north-west direction.