Heavy Rain Alert: Chennai and adjoining districts to be hit owing to depression in Bay of Bengal

IMD has predicted isolated extremely heavy rainfalls over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karaikal and Rayalaseema, besides very heavy rainfall over South interior Karnataka and South Coastal Andhra Pradesh on Thursday. 

Chennai: According to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), the weather system (low pressure area) that has been brewing off India’s East Coast has intensified into a Depression. Situated over the Southwest Bay of Bengal, this evolving weather system is likely to bring isolated extremely heavy rainfalls over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karaikal and Rayalaseema, besides very heavy rainfall over South interior Karnataka and South Coastal Andhra Pradesh on Thursday (November 18). 

Winds are forecast to be gusting up to 65 kmph in the Southwest and west-central Bay of Bengal and off Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and south Andhra Pradesh coasts until Friday, following which there will be a gradual decrease. Owing to the harsh weather and very rough sea conditions over this region, fishermen have been advised to not venture out into the seas, in the next 24 hours.