Chennai breathes easy, depression moves away
PTI
Chennai
The danger of heavy rainfall in excess of 25 cm in Chennai and neighbourhood, forecast on Tuesday night, has abated with the weather system moving away but coastal areas of the state would continue to experience heavy rains for another 24 hours.
The meteorological department said the rainfall would gradually decrease in the state as the deep depression over the Bay of Bengal has moved toward Andhra Pradesh and lay centred about 170 km southeast of Nellore.
Meanwhile, several parts of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry continued to receive rains for the third day on Wednesday. Regional Meteorological Centre, Director, K Balachandran told reporters “due to the system moving away from Tamil Nadu, rainfall would decrease in a phased manner”.
“We are expecting the deep depression to become a cyclone in the next 24-48 hours,” he said adding heavy rainfall may occur over North Tamil Nadu in one or two places during the period.
A met office bulletin said, “The system is likely to move north-northeastwards off Andhra Pradesh Coast and intensify into a cyclonic storm during the next 24 hours.”
In the last 24 hours that ended at 8.30 am today, Kelambakkam on the outskirts of Chennai received the highest rainfall of 23 cm, Chennai 11 cm, Nungambakkam 8 cm and Anna
Universiy 7.5 cm.
