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Incessant overnight drizzle connected Wednesday nighttime successful Tirunelveli and Tenkasi districts has heralded the onset of northeast monsoon successful the confederate districts of Tamil Nadu, which would usually commencement successful mid-October each year.
The intermittent drizzle that started connected Wednesday nighttime aft 11 p.m. became incessant successful the aboriginal hours of Thursday. District Collector R. Sukumar declared vacation for each schools successful the territory pursuing incessant overnight drizzle that intensified successful the morning. Even though the entity remained overcast passim the day, determination was nary rainfall successful immoderate portion of the territory aft 10 a.m.
Even though the Tirunelveli Corporation continues to accent that each drainage and tempest h2o channels successful Tirunelveli and Palayamkottai had been desilted to avert waterlogging, the roadworthy users had to wade done the stagnant rainwater successful respective parts of Tirunelveli Town and Palayamkottai.
Influx of h2o into the Manimuthar dam, the district’s largest reservoir, marginally went up to 201 cusecs pursuing beardown drizzle on the Western Ghats, portion determination was nary summation successful the inflow of h2o into the Papanasam dam connected Tuesday. Following the accrued influx of h2o into the Manimuthar Dam, bathing was banned successful the Manimuthar Falls connected Thursday, overmuch to the disappointment of the visitors.
Similarly, the Forest Department banned bathing successful the Thalaiyanai successful Kalakkad and Kannimar Odai cascading from the Western Ghats adjacent Panagudi arsenic some the scenic spots experienced flood.
Though the Indian Meteorological Department had fixed ‘orange alert’ for Tirunelveli territory connected Thursday, nary ‘very dense downpour’ was reported successful immoderate portion of the district.
Rainfall successful the territory (in mm): Nambiyar dam – 68, Nanguneri – 67, Moolaikaraipatti– 60, Palayamkottai – 56, Radhapuram – 54, Nalumukku– 40, Kodumudiyar dam – 37, Ooththu – 36, Kakkachi– 34, Manjolai and Tirunelveli – 31, Cheranmahadevi – 16.80, Kannadiyan Channel – 15.60, Kalakkad – 12, Ambasamudram – 11.20, Papanasam – 7, Servarlar dam – 6 and Manimuthar dam – 4.80.
Tenkasi District Collector A.K. Kamal Kishore besides declared vacation for the schools successful the territory connected Thursday pursuing wide overnight drizzle crossed the district. Since India Meteorological Department has issued ‘orange alert’ for Tenkasi territory connected Friday, the Collector has cautioned the nationalist to beryllium alert during dense downpour.
All waterfalls successful Courtallam received accrued travel of h2o connected Thursday pursuing overnight rains on the Western Ghats and bathing was banned successful Main Falls, Five Falls and Old Courtallam Falls.
Rainfall successful the territory (in mm): Karuppanadhi dam – 22.50, Sivagiri – 14.20, Sankarankovil – 12.80, Shencottai – 12, Gundar dam – 10, Adavinainarkovil dam and Aayikudi – 9, Tenkasi – 7, Ramanadhi dam – 5 and Gadnanadhi dam – 4.
