Heavy rain warning: Red alert issued to Chennai

Even as life was limping back to normalcy in the city after five days of extremely heavy rains, the Met office has forecast extremely heavy rains for Chennai city and three other districts for the next two days as the low pressure area over the bay will reach North Tamilnadu coast on 18 November.

A senior official in the Met department said the system is unlikely to intensify into a depression and will reach the Tamilnadu coast as a low pressure area.

In a bulletin, the Met office said the Low Pressure area over Southeast Bay of Bengal and adjoining North Andaman sea now lies over Southeast Bay of Bengal and the associated cyclonic circulation extends upto 5.8 km above mean sea level.

It is likely to move nearly westwards and reach Westcentral and adjoining Southwest Bay of Bengal off south Andhra Pradesh­ North Tamilnadu coasts on 18 November.

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