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For the 3rd consecutive day, the remnant of Cyclone Ditwah, which has present weakened into a well-marked debased unit area, continued to batter Chennai and Tiruvallur districts connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025). The upwind strategy is apt to bring rainfall to areas on its way arsenic it moves inland.
With the strategy moving dilatory inland, the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), Chennai, has issued an orangish alert successful northbound Tamil Nadu districts, including Chennai, Kancheepuram, Ranipet, and Tiruvallur, arsenic good arsenic 2 districts on the Ghat areas, indicating precise dense rainfall connected Wednesday.
Follow unrecorded updates connected Cyclone Ditwah here.
The Nilgiris and the Ghat areas of Coimbatore, too, are apt to person precise dense rainfall up to 20.4 cm. A full of 18 districts, including Vellore and Tiruvannamalai, and those on the Ghat areas, and adjoining districts specified arsenic Madurai and Virudhunagar, person besides been issued a yellowish alert, indicating dense rainfall up to 11.5 cm.
The well-marked debased unit country is apt to determination southwestwards dilatory crossed northbound coastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry and weaken further into a debased unit country by Thursday (December 4, 2025).
During the past 24 hours ending 8.30 a.m. connected Wednesday, Ennore and Hindustan University received dense rainfall of 15 cm each. Chetpet successful Tiruvannamalai territory received 13 cm of rainfall. Several different places successful Chennai and different districts specified arsenic Pudukottai, Thanjavur, Kallakurichi, and Villupuram besides received mean to dense rainfall.
Heavy showers continued successful Chennai and neighbouring districts connected Wednesday, prompting the Water Resources Department (WRD) to unfastened shutters of Poondi and Chembarambakkam reservoirs to merchandise 200 cubic feet of h2o per second, anticipating dense inflow. Water discharge from Red Hills reservoir has been accrued to 500 cusecs to support a flood buffer space.
The RMC has predicted dense rainfall to proceed successful Krishnagiri, Dharmapuri, and Tirupathur, and southbound coastal districts similar Thoothukudi, Kanniyakumari, and Ramanathapuram connected Thursday.
