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Cyclone likely to move towards Andhra coast
Chennai, Nov 11: Chennai city seems to have escaped the wrath of cyclone in the south west bay as it lay centered 230 kms east southeast of the southern metropolis and was likely to intensify and move in a west north westerly direction.
Chennai, Nov 11: Chennai city seems to have escaped
the wrath of cyclone in the south west bay as it lay centered
230 kms east southeast of the southern metropolis and was
likely to intensify and move in a west north westerly
direction.
It is likely to cross north Tamil Nadu coast and south
Andhra Pradesh coast by tomorrow morning between Chennai and Machilipatanam, weather office sources said here today.
The metropolis, which was battered by heavy downpour for the past one week, had relief from rains this morning with the sky becoming clear. The weather office, however, has forecast more rains this evening which might continue till depression crossed the coast tomorrow morning. Last evening, weather office had issued cyclone alert and predicted rains in many places across the state, Pondicherry and south coastal Andhra Pradesh.
The north east monsoon has so far claimed 27 lives. Normal life in the city has been affected with water entering low lying areas. Over 15,000 huts have been flooded with rain water rendering over a lakh homeless, sources said.
Most of the roads in the city have been damaged badly and efforts were on to carry out repairs, corporation officials said. The rains have also brought copious inflows to most of the reservoirs in the state, sources said.
Bureau Report
The metropolis, which was battered by heavy downpour for the past one week, had relief from rains this morning with the sky becoming clear. The weather office, however, has forecast more rains this evening which might continue till depression crossed the coast tomorrow morning. Last evening, weather office had issued cyclone alert and predicted rains in many places across the state, Pondicherry and south coastal Andhra Pradesh.
The north east monsoon has so far claimed 27 lives. Normal life in the city has been affected with water entering low lying areas. Over 15,000 huts have been flooded with rain water rendering over a lakh homeless, sources said.
Most of the roads in the city have been damaged badly and efforts were on to carry out repairs, corporation officials said. The rains have also brought copious inflows to most of the reservoirs in the state, sources said.
Bureau Report