The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on the 1st of December, announced another cyclone alert for Tamil Nadu.
This is the second cyclone alert in the past 1 week as the State was recently hit by Cyclone Nivar.
The State weather department has said that a deep depression over southwest and adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal lay centred on the 1st of December. The lowpressures system is likely to intensify further into a cyclonic storm during the next 24 hours.
The cyclone is expected to move west northwestwards and cross the Sri Lanka coast close to Trincomalee between the evening and night of the 2nd of December.
The maximum wind speed during the storm will be 70-80kmph gusting to 90 kmph.
According to the IMD, isolated areas would witness heavy to very heavy rainfall on the 1st of December and 4th of December.
In south Kerala the rainfall is likely to occur on the 2nd of December and the 4th of December.
Places like Kanyakumari, Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, Tenkasi, Ramanathapuram and Sivagangai in Tamil Nadu and Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta and Alappuzha in south Kerala are likely to experience heavy to very heavy rainfall with isolated extremely heavy falls on the 2nd and the 3rd of December.
North Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Mahe and Karaikal and north Kerala will also witness heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places on the 2nd and the 3rd of December.
Heavy rainfall at isolated places is very likely over south coastal Andhra Pradesh during December 2 and 3, and over Lakshadweep from December 3 and 4.
In addition, the IMD has also directed a complete suspension of fishing operations till December 4 in the region.
More details about the cyclone are awaited.
Stay tuned for further updates.
