Depression may trigger torrential downpour over coastal areas of Tamil Nadu
The HinduCoastal areas between delta districts to Chennai may experience severe rainfall on Wednesday as the Meteorological department has announced the weather system to have strengthened as a depression. According to IMD, the well marked low pressure area over southeast and adjoining southwest Bay of Bengal is likely to concentrate into a depression by Wednesday night and move west–northwestwards and reach near north Tamil Nadu coast by Thursday early morning. On Wednesday, the IMD has issued red alert for delta districts and Pudukottai and Ramanathapuram as torrential rains measuring above 20.4 cm is possible in one or two places and many places may have to brace for heavy to very heavy rainfall. The peak rainfall may shift to north coastal areas, including Chennai, on Thursday as the weather system gets closer to the coast and some places may experience extremely heavy rainspell.