Cyclone fengal stay updates: cyclone fengal brings rain in Chennai, purple alert throughout Tamil Nadu
Cyclone fengal stay updates: cyclone fengal brings rain in chennai, purple alert throughout tamil nadu
Cyclone fengal stay updates: heavy to very high rain has been forecast in chennai, tiruvallur, kancheepuram, kallakurichi, cuddalore districts, and puducherry.
Cyclone fengal - pronounced 'feinjal' - is likely to make a landfall this afternoon. The cyclonic typhoon (cyclone fengal) brewing inside the bay of bengal will go the tamil nadu coast between karaikal and mahabalipuram with a wind velocity of 70-80 km according to hour with gusts as much as 90 kmph, the indian meteorological branch stated. Heavy to very heavy rain has been forecast in chennai, tiruvallur, kancheepuram, kallakurichi, cuddalore districts, and puducherry.
As cyclone fengal is anticipated to make landfall this night, the director of the regional meteorological centre of chennai, dr s balachandran, stated on friday that the coastal regions of tamil nadu can be impacted greater. "...Broadly speaking coastal districts, the crossing point is among karaikal to mahabalipuram near puducherry, so, all along the coastal districts, the effect can be extra. There may be wind and rainfall. Nowadays the wind pace become 50-60 kmph and gusting to 70 kmph... At one to two, there can be extraordinarily heavy rainfall, even as at many locations it will likely be scattered heavy to very heavy rainfall," he told ani.
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