CHENNAI: A day before the onset of the Northeast Monsoon over the southern peninsula on Thursday, widespread light rain was recorded across Chennai and its surrounding suburbs. According to the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), isolated places in Nilgiris, Coimbatore, Theni, and Virudhunagar districts are expected to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall on Thursday. The weather department stated that an upper-air cyclonic circulation over the Southwest Bay of Bengal, off the South Sri Lanka coast, now lies over the Comorin area coast and extends up to 1.5 km above mean sea level. Addition...