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The adust spell implicit the State whitethorn easiness arsenic the heavy slump implicit the Bay of Bengal is apt to bring scattered rainfall, peculiarly implicit coastal Tamil Nadu, for 3 days from Friday (January 9, 2026). The Bay of Bengal has witnessed lone 20 aggravated upwind systems during January since 1891, making specified events antithetic during this clip of the year.
According to the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), the heavy slump lies implicit southwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining eastbound Equatorial Ocean, astir 810 km southeast of Karaikal and 980 km south-southeast of Chennai. It is apt to transverse the Sri Lanka seashore betwixt Hambantota and Kalmunai connected Friday evening/night.
B. Amudha, Head (Additional in-charge), RMC, said portion this is not the archetypal clip that the Bay has churned retired aggravated upwind systems during January, specified events are not frequent. The heavy slump is apt to bring dense rainfall to immoderate parts arsenic it moves on south-coastal Tamil Nadu.
The RMC has issued orangish and yellowish upwind alerts, indicating the anticipation of aggravated downpour up to 20 cm successful immoderate districts. On Friday, the downpour would beryllium restricted to delta districts and south-coastal Tamil Nadu. While Tiruvarur and Nagapattinam whitethorn person dense to precise dense rainfall, Ramanathapuram, Pudukottai, Mayiladuthurai, and Thanjavur are apt to person dense rainfall.
On Saturday (January 10), galore coastal districts and immoderate interior places whitethorn get rainfall, and it whitethorn beryllium aggravated implicit the agelong betwixt Chengalpattu and Ramanathapuram. While 4 districts, including Cuddalore and Tiruvarur, whitethorn person dense to precise dense rainfall, dense rainfall whitethorn hap successful isolated places successful 7 districts, including Pudukottai, Chengalpattu, and Ariyalur.
Why is this a uncommon event?
Y.E.A. Raj, erstwhile lawman manager wide of meteorology, Chennai, noted the prevailing system, expected to transverse the Sri Lanka coast, is analogous to the January 2023 slump that crossed the land nation’s eastbound coast.
Eleven aggravated upwind systems formed implicit the Bay of Bengal betwixt 1961 and 2024, and astir of them were short-lived. None of the upwind systems crossed the Tamil Nadu coast. Only 2 January systems successful 1967 and 2005 intensified into cyclonic storms, helium added.
Meanwhile, the RMC has forecast that crushed frost is apt to hap implicit the higher ranges of the Nilgiris and Kodaikanal hills connected Friday.
