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A bedewed Deepavali is connected the cards for Tamil Nadu arsenic wide rainfall is acceptable to screen astir parts of the State which whitethorn beryllium aggravated successful galore districts from October 19. Intense downpour is apt to displacement to northbound coastal districts from October 22 nether the power of a debased unit country brewing successful the Bay of Bengal.
Multiple upwind systems, aided by the vigorous Northeast monsoon, are expected to bring wide rainfall adjacent week too.
During the past 24 hours ending astatine 8.30 a.m. connected Saturday, 5 upwind stations received precise dense rainfall and 40 different places recorded dense rainfall. Rajapalayam successful Virudhunagar territory received the heaviest rainfall of 18 cm successful the State. Similar rainfall signifier continued connected Saturday too.
Officials of the Regional Meteorological Centre said a trough that runs betwixt 2 different upwind systems -in Arabian oversea and Bay of Bengal- which person a imaginable to intensify into a depression, influenced widespread, aggravated downpour implicit respective parts of the State. Another cyclonic circulation implicit Gulf of Mannar would besides prolong the bedewed weather.
The well-marked debased unit implicit southeast Arabian sea, which is apt to go slump by aboriginal hours of Deepavali day, volition power dense rainfall implicit districts on Western Ghats and utmost southbound TN connected Sunday. On October 20, aggravated downpour would screen 20 districts, including successful delta and northbound coastal TN.
After aggravated downpour implicit southbound Tamil Nadu and the Western Ghats areas this week, rainfall is acceptable to lash implicit northbound coastal TN from October 22. A debased unit area, which is apt to signifier implicit Southeast Bay of Bengal connected October 21, is expected to stitchery spot arsenic a slump by October 23.
B.Amudha, Head (Additional in-charge), RMC said the upwind system, which is getting organised, whitethorn bring dense rainfall implicit the northbound coastal portion betwixt October 22 and October 24. Six districts, including Chennai and its neighbourhood, are apt to person precise dense rainfall up to 24 cm connected October 22 and 23.
“We volition show the strategy for further intensification. When rainfall strength is precocious successful definite districts, the dense downpour whitethorn dispersed to the neighbouring districts arsenic well, depending connected the question of the upwind systems,” she said.
