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Cyclonic circulation over bay weakens, Met office withdraws Red Alert for Chennai

Chennai, Oct 18 (UNI) The Met office on Sunday evening withdrew the Red Alert (extreme rainfall of over 20 cm rains) issued for Chennai for Sunday due to weakening of the cyclonic circulation over the North Chennai coast and cloud development, while scaling it down to Yellow alert (around 10 cm rains).
In an update, it said the weakening of the cyclonic circulation over the West-Central Bay of Bengal (WCB) and adjoining south Andhra Pradesh coast, cloud development has significantly weakened along the north Chennai coast.
Consequently, no very heavy rainfall is expected over Chennai during the next 24 hours. Hence, the Red Warning for Chennai has been downgraded to a Yellow Warning, it said.
Meanwihile, an official release issued after Chief Minister Vijay reviewed the flood situation in the wake of extremely heavy rains late last night with some areas receiving over 30 cms of rain in a short span
and issuance of Red Alert, said 227 relief centres were opened with all amenities to house people evacuated from low lying areas and food packets were given to 13,500 affected people in the city. A total of 112 kitchens were kept in readiness to prepare food for those housed in relief centres.
Civic workers with all equipments including motors to pump out stagnated water, tree cutting machines to clear felled trees and medical facilities were also deployed for relief and rescue works.
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