Lagatar24 Desk
New Desk, Dec 9: Three districts in Tamil Nadu were placed on red alert on Friday due to the cyclone Mandous continuing to be a ‘Severe Cyclonic Storm’ as of early this morning, officials said.
Chengalpattu, Villupuram, and Kancheepuram are among the districts that are under alert.
The officials further informed that under the cyclone’s effect most places over the north coastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry are anticipated to get heavy to very heavy rainfall and extremely severe rainfall at isolated places.
As a cyclonic storm with a maximum sustained wind speed of 65-75 kmph gusting to 85 kmph during midnight, the cyclone will move west-northwestwards and cross north Tamilnadu, Puducherry, and adjacent south Andhra Pradesh coasts between Puducherry and Sriharikota around Mahabalipuram, according to officials.
“It is very likely to maintain its intensity of Severe Cyclonic Storm till early morning of today, the 9th December and then weaken gradually into a cyclonic storm thereafter. It would continue to move west-northwestwards and cross north Tamilnadu, Puducherry and adjoining south Andhra Pradesh coasts between Puducherry and Sriharikota around Mahabalipuram as a cyclonic storm with a maximum sustained wind speed of 65-75 kmph gusting to 85 kmph during midnight of today, the 09th December to early hours of 10th December,” read an official statement by India Meteorological Department.
