Cyclone Mandous to bring heavy rains over T.N. today before it hits coast around midnight
The HinduSevere cyclonic storm Mandous is set to weaken into a cyclone, as it heads towards the north Tamil Nadu coast, and makes landfall around Mamallapuram between midnight on Friday and the early hours of Saturday. Some of the weather stations in TN that received moderate to heavy rains till 5.30 am on Friday are: Nungambakkam 5.3 cm; Meenambakkam 5 cm; Ennore port 3 cm; Madhavaram 6 cm; YMCA Nandanam 5.4 cm; Puzhal 4.4 cm; Taramani 4 cm; MRC Nagar 3 cm; Villivakkam 3.7 cm; Pamban 2.5 cm; Nagappattinam 2.2 cm; Karaikal 1.8 cm and Puducherry 1 cm. It will move northwestwards and cross north Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and the adjoining south Andhra Pradesh coasts between Puducherry and Sriharikota around Mamallapuram as a cyclonic storm with a maximum sustained wind speed of 65-75 kmph gusting to 85 kmph around midnight on Friday and early on Saturday. Cyclone Nivar crossed the coast near Puducherry as a severe cyclonic storm, dumping extremely heavy rains in coastal areas.