Cyclone Ditwah weakens, moves northward slowly along Tamil Nadu coast

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Giant waves driven by Cyclone Ditwah onslaught   the seashore  astatine  Kasimedu sportfishing  harbour successful  Chennai connected  November 30, 2025

Giant waves driven by Cyclone Ditwah onslaught the seashore astatine Kasimedu sportfishing harbour successful Chennai connected November 30, 2025 | Photo Credit: B. Jothi Ramalingam

Cyclonic tempest Ditwah, positioned adjacent to northbound Tamil Nadu–Puducherry coast, continued its dilatory northward question connected Sunday (November 30, 2025) adjacent arsenic it began to weaken.

According to the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), the strategy moved astatine a velocity of 5 kmph connected Sunday greeting implicit southwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining northbound Tamil Nadu–Puducherry coast. The minimum region of its centre from the coastline was astir 80 km.

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The RMC said the cyclone moved astir northwards parallel to the seashore and weakened into a heavy slump by Sunday (November 30, 2025) night. By midnight connected November 30, the strategy was to stay implicit southwest Bay of Bengal astatine a minimum region of astir 30 km from the northbound Tamil Nadu–Puducherry coastline.

Forecast for Monday

For Monday (December 1), airy to mean rainfall is apt astatine isolated places implicit Tamil Nadu and Puducherry–Karaikal, with thunderstorms and lightning astatine a fewer places. Heavy rainfall is apt astatine isolated places successful Tiruvallur district, according to the RMC bulletin.

Gale winds are apt to alteration gradually, becoming squally with speeds of 45–55 kmph, gusting up to 65 kmph, by the greeting of Monday. Sea information is precise apt to amended gradually, becoming precise unsmooth to unsmooth by the greeting of Monday and improving further thereafter, the RMC said.

Published - November 30, 2025 10:01 p.m. IST

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