Chennai To Get Some Respite From Cyclone Michaung's Destruction As IMD Predicts Light Rainfall

Chennai is going to experience some respite from Cyclone Michaung as the IMD has predicted light showers over north coastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

Cyclone Michaung has disrupted normal life and wreaked havoc across Chennai and adjoining districts with severe rainfall and floods. According to the India Meteorological Department, Chennaites are going to experience some relief from the storm. North coastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry are likely to experience light to moderate rainfall in most places and isolated heavy rainfall on Tuesday morning. The rainfall will then decrease thereafter, as reported by news agency PTI.

Residents in some parts of Chennai experienced no rain since Tuesday morning and mentioned that power services had been restored. Despite some relief, train services to and from the city remain suspended.

IMD bulletin stated that coastal Andhra Pradesh will continue to receive light to moderate rainfall in most places and heavy to very heavy rainfall is expected in a few places. Extremely heavy rainfall is likely to occur at isolated places over coastal Andhra Pradesh and Yanam on Tuesday. The bulletin further warned that exceptionally heavy rainfall is expected at one or two places over north-coastal and adjoining south-coastal Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday, as reported by PTI.

During the past six hours, the Severe Cyclonic Storm Michaung over the westcentral Bay of Bengal off south Andhra Pradesh and adjoining north Tamil Nadu coasts moved north-northwestwards with a speed of 7 kilometres per hour. Earlier this morning at 2:30 am, the storm was centred 20 kilometres north-northeast of Nellore, 170 kilometres north of Chennai, 150 kilometres south of Bapatla and 210 kilometres south-southwest of Machilipatnam.

IMD bulletin added that as the system is nearly moving northwards close to the coast, some parts of the wall cloud region lie over land.

According to PTI, the cyclone is now likely to move nearly northwards parallel and close to the south Andhra Pradesh coast. It will cross the south Andhra Pradesh coast between Nellore and Machilipatnam on Tuesday forenoon near Bapatla with a maximum sustained windspeed of 90-100 kilometres per hour, and gusting to 110 kilometres per hour.