Cyclone Nivar expected to cross T.N. coast by Wednesday midnight or early on Thursday
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While locations in and round Chennai acquired heavy to very heavy rain until 8.30 a.m. on Wednesday, Chidambaram, Cuddalore, Karaikal, Nagapattinam skilled gentle rain.
Incessant heavy rainfall lashed a number of areas in and round Chennai because the extreme cyclonic storm Nivar approached nearer to the coast on Wednesday.
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Places in and round Chennai acquired heavy to very heavy rain until 8.30 a.m. on Wednesday. Nungambakkam acquired almost 17 cm of rainfall and Meenambakkam recorded 12 cm. The different climate stations in Taramani (12 cm), West Tambaram (10 cm) and Ennore 9 cm too recorded rain of heavy to very heavy depth.
However, different locations resembling Chidambaram, Cuddalore, Karaikal, Nagapattinam have acquired solely gentle rain until 8.30 a.m.
According to the India Meteorological Department, the extreme cyclonic storm Nivar has moved west-northwestwards and lay centered over southwest Bay of Bengal, about 290 km east-southeast of Cuddalore, about 300 km east southeast of Puducherry and 350 km south southeast of Chennai. It is probably going to intensify into a really extreme cyclonic storm by afternoon.
It is now shifting at a pace of seven km per hour.
Severe climate disturbance is probably going throughout Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts between Karaikal and Mamallapuram round Puducherry throughout Wednesday midnight and early hours of Thursday as a really extreme cyclonic storm with a wind pace of 120-130 kmph gusting to 145 kmph crosses the coast, stated officers.
One or two locations in coastal and north inside districts of the State and Puducherry could expertise rainfall of extraordinarily heavy depth above 24 cm on Wednesday as Nivar comes nearer to the Tamil Nadu coast. A complete of 15 districts could expertise remoted extraordinarily heavy rain, together with Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Chennai, Kancheepuram, Chengalpattu, Ariyalur, Perambalur and Villupuram on Wednesday.
The IMD has warned of harm to thatched homes, roads, breaking of tree branches and disruptions of overhead energy strains. Widespread injury to standing crops and plantations can also be expected.
Squally winds will step by step enhance through the day and its pace would attain 120-130 kmph gusting generally up to 145 kmph alongside and off coastal districts of north Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. Districts resembling Nagapattinam, Karaikal, Myladuthurai, Cuddalore, Puducherry, Villupuram and Chengalpattu could expertise gale winds.
Winds with speeds reaching 80-90 kmph gusting generally to 100 kmph are expected over Tiruvarur, Kancheepuram, Chennai and Tiruvallur districts from Wednesday midday to early hours of Thursday on the time of landfall of Nivar.
Severe injury is expected to standing crop, plantation, orchards, and thatched rooftops are seemingly to be blown away.
Nivar is expected to start ebbing in depth by midnight after landfall and ease out by Friday although windspeed and related rainfall are expected to be important till Friday.
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