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Cyclonic Storm Murasu intensifies, to cross AP coast tomorrow, heavy rains lash Chennai, North TN dists

Chennai, Chennai, Nov 2 (UNI) Several parts of Chennai city, suburbs and Northern districts received heavy rains since last night reviving the Northeast monsoon activity as the Cyclonic Storm "Murasu", intensified as a Severe Cyclonic Storm, inched closer to the Tamil Nadu coast, then move towards Andhra Pradesh and cross the coast early tomorrow.
Under its influence, heavy rains, accompanied by thunderstorm, lashed several parts of Chennai and adjoining districts. The spells were quite heavy and with more rains forecast schools and colleges were declared a holiday for the day in Chennai and Tiruvallur districts.
The Tamil Nadu government has activated its machinery in full swing in districts where heavy spells are expected till tomorrow evening. Relief camps equipped with all basic amenities were opened to house those evacuated from low lying areas, and the repsective district administrations have put in place all precautionary measures to tackle the Cyclone rains, which has revived the monsoon activity after
a brief lull for 4-5 days.
The rising temperatures dipped considerably, sky remained thick grey and chilly weather condition was prevailing in Chennai, Tiruvallur, Kancheepuram and Villupuram districts.
The Chennai city received a maximum of 8.7 cm of rain till 0530 hrs this morning, while the suburban Meenambakkam observatory recorded three cms of rainfall. The city Northern suburb of Ennore recorded 10 cm of rains, with showers reported in several district including in Ranipet district.
In a National Bulletin issued on Monday morning as Cyclone Warning for Andhra Pradesh and adjoining North Tamil Nadu coasts with Red Message (very heavy to extremely heavy rains in excess of 20 cms), the IMD said the Cyclonic Storm intensified as Severe Cyclonic Storm “Murasu” early this morning.
The system over Westcentral and adjoining Southwest Bay of Bengal, moved west-northwestwards with a speed of 25 kmph during the past six hours and lay centered at 0530 hours of today, over the same region about 200 km east-northeast of Chennai (Tamil Nadu),
210 km east-southeast of Nellore (Andhra Pradesh), 270 km south-southeast of Machilipatnam (Andhra Pradesh), 220 km east-southeast of Kavali (Andhra Pradesh), and 260 km southeast of Ongole (Andhra Pradesh).
It is very likely to move northwestwards and cross the south Andhra Pradesh coast as a Severe Cyclonic Storm with a wind speed of
100 to 110 kmph and gusting upto 120 kmph between Nellore and Narsapur close to Ongole during midnight (2330 hrs) of today and
the early hours (0400 hrs) of tomorrow, before weakening.
UNI GV 0950
Tags: #Cyclonic Storm Murasu intensifies# to cross AP coast tomorrow# heavy rains lash Chennai# North TN dists
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