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Severe Cyclonic Storm Murasu moves away from North TN, to fully cross AP coast tomorrow

Chennai, Nov 2 (UNI) As the Severe Cyclonic Storm "Murasu" moved away from the North Tamil Nadu coast to Andhra Pradesh coast without causing any significant impact, several parts of Chennai city, suburbs and Northern districts received heavy rains since last night reviving the Northeast monsoon activity.
Met office in an update said the heavy rains in Tamil Nadu especially in Northern and Coastal districts, including Chennai, will continue till tomorrow and thereafter heavy and moderate showers will continue in North Interior, Cauvery delta, Southern and South Coastal districts, till November seven even as the Severe Cyclonic Storm moved towards Andhra Pradesh and is set cross the coast between midnight tonight and 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.Though the rains abated in the city, except for intermittent showers, chilly weather conditions prevailed and heavy to very heavy rains in some places and heavy rains in other locations are in the offing in Chennai, Tiruvallur, Chengalpattu, Kancheepuram, Ranipet and Vellore till tomorrow.
Though several pockets of the city received intermittent rains, with sharp showers in some areas till evening, the showers receded as the night. The Met office said heavy rains are likely in the night and early morning.
Regional Metereological Centre, Chennai, Director V.R.Durai told reporters this afternoon that once the system crossed the AP coast tomorrow morning, the intensity of the rains will decline gradually in Northern districts of the State. They would receive moderate rains thereafter and the rains are expected to continue in the state till November 7.
The Chennai city recorded less than one cm of rain till 1900 hrs from 0830 hrs this morning.
In an updated National Bulletin issued on Monday night, the IMD said the Severe Cyclonic Storm “Murasu” over Westcentral Bay of Bengal moved west-northwestwards with a speed of 12 kmph during the past six hours and lay centered at 1730 hours of today about
80 km east-northeast of Nellore (Andhra Pradesh), 80 km east-southeast of Kavali (Andhra Pradesh), 110 km southeast of Ongole (Andhra Pradesh), 140 km south of Bapatla (AP) , 170 south-southwest of Machilipatnam (Andhra Pradesh), 170 km Northeast of Tirupati and 190 km North-Northeast of Chennai.
It is very likely to move northwestwards and make the landfall between the South Andhra Pradesh coast as a Severe Cyclonic Storm with a wind speed of 70 to 90 kmph and gusting up to 120 kmph between Nellore and Narsapur, to the south of Ongole during midnight (2330 Hrs IST) of today and the early hours (0400 Hrs IST) of tomorrow.
The Severe Cyclonic Storm “Murasu” is under the continuous surveillance of Doppler Weather Radars at Chennai, Machilipatnam and Visakhapatnam.
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