IMD issues Cyclone alert for Tamilnadu

Chennai Nov 30: A natural disaster would hit Tamilnadu soon as A depression that formed over the southwest Bay of Bengal on Wednesday has now turned into a cyclone.

Sources said that "Cyclone Ockhi lay centered 170 km southeast of Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu Thursday morning. Heavy rains have already started lashing the coastal areas of the state.
The cyclone is currently headed towards Lakshadweep islands and is unlikely to make a landfall in Tamil Nadu."



The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said that "rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places and isolated extremely heavy falls are very likely over Lakshadweep area during the next 48 hours.that heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places was very likely over south Tamil Nadu and south Kerala over the next 48 hours."

IMD has added that"winds reaching 55-65 kmph gusting to 75 kmph were likely along and off south Kerala during the next 48 hours and along and off south Tamil Nadu during the next 24 hours."