Tamil Nadu Rains: IMD issues red alert, NDRF teams deployed, several schools closed; Cyclonic storm brewing
Live MintTamil Nadu Rains: The India Meteorological Department has issued a red alert for Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal for Wednesday, November 27, amid heavy rains in the region. "Heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely in a few places with isolated extremely heavy rainfall over Coastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on November 26 and 27. Deep depression likely to become a cyclonic storm: IMD Deep Depression over Southwest Bay of Bengal moved north-north-westwards with a speed of 8 kmph during the past 6 hours and lay centred at 1730 hours IST of today, the 26th November 2024 over the same region near latitude 7.0°N and longitude 82.7°E, about 240 km southeast of Trincomalee, 520 km southeast of Nagappattinam, 640 km south-southeast of Puducherry and 720 km south-southeast of Chennai. Sea condition — Rough to very rough sea conditions are very likely to prevail over the southwest Bay of Bengal and along & off Sri Lanka's coast till the morning of 27 November.