Chennai Rain Live Updates: A damaged navigation buoy that was floating adjacent Marina formation connected the bay of Bengal being retrieved from the shores arsenic unsmooth upwind continues owed to enactment of heavy slump pursuing the onset of North East monsoon, adjacent Chennai. (PTI Photo)
Tamil Nadu, Chennai Rains Live Updates: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted precise dense rainfall successful Tamil Nadu and Puducherry today, prompting authorities to hole for imaginable disruptions. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has deployed teams for hazard assessments and information checks successful susceptible areas specified arsenic T R Patinam and Karaikal.
The upwind section besides announced the intensification of a heavy slump implicit the Southwest Bay of Bengal into a cyclonic tempest wrong the adjacent 12 hours. Currently located astir 100 km east-northeast of Trincomalee, the strategy is expected to determination north-northwest, skirting the Sri Lankan coast. It is apt to marque landfall betwixt Karaikal and Mahabalipuram connected the greeting of November 30 arsenic a heavy depression, with upwind speeds of 50-60 kmph, gusting up to 70 kmph.
Flight ops and Schools: The upwind has already caused disruptions to formation operations, with IndiGo Airlines announcing cancellations for services to and from Chennai, Tuticorin, Madurai, Tiruchirappalli, and Salem. Schools successful Chennai were closed connected November 27 owed to dense rainfall, though nary closure has been announced for November 28.