Cyclone alert

24 Nov 2020 / Tamil Nadu coast, India

The Indian Meteorological Department has issued an alert about a well-marked low pressure system that has concentrated into a depression over Southwest Bay of Bengal and is now about 700 km south-southeast of Puducherry and 740 km south-southeast of Chennai.

The system is likely to intensify further into a cyclonic storm during next 24 hours, and is very likely to move northwestwards and cross Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts between Karaikal and Mamallapuram around noon/afternoon tomorrow (25 November).

While moving north-westwards, the system would skirt northeast Sri Lanka coast today.

Warning signal LC-III has been hoisted at all major and minor ports in Tamil Nadu. All inward movements at Chennai have been cancelled from 1400 hours today. Outward and shifting movements are underway.

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