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Several parts of the Cauvery delta districts received airy to mean rainfall connected Monday aft immoderate dense overnight rainfall successful a fewer places successful the region.
With squally upwind prevailing nether the power of a low-pressure country successful the Bay of Bengal, fishermen successful astir coastal areas successful the portion did not task into the oversea arsenic per the proposal of the Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai. A vacation had been declared for schools successful Nagapattinam territory and for schools and colleges successful Karaikal territory successful neighbouring Puducherry.
Kodiyakarai successful Nagapattinam territory received the highest rainfall of 12 cm during the 24-hour play ending 8.30 a.m. connected Monday.
The different main amounts of rainfall during the play were astatine Sembanarkovil (9 cm), Vedaranyam, Thalaignayiru, Kollidam and Sirkali ( 8 cm each); Tarangambadi and Mayiladuthurai (7 cm each); Tirupoondi and Nannilam (5 cm each); Tiruvarur, Karaikal and Kodavasal (4 cm each); Velankanni, Nagapattinam, Needamangalam (3 cm each); and Manjalaru, Manalmedu, Mannargudi, Pandavaiyar Head, Thirukuvalai and Aduthurai (2 cm each).
Although rainfall did not airs a menace to the lasting paddy crops successful the region, farmers said continued dense rainfall could spell trouble. “There has not been overmuch occupation till now, but fields with young crops are waterlogged arsenic the drainages are not successful bully condition. The B, C and D class canals are successful mediocre signifier and if the rains proceed determination could beryllium trouble,” said Arupathy P. Kalyanam, wide caput of the Federation of Farmers’ Associations of the Cauvery Delta Districts.
Crops harmless for now
In the lack of dense rainfall successful the precocious reaches of the Cauvery delta, determination has not been overmuch occupation truthful far, said Cauvery Dhanapalan, president, Tamil Nadu Vivasyigal Sangankalin Kootiyakkam.
If dense rainfall continued for adjacent fewer days, farmers, particularly those who had raised thaladi crop, could look problems, helium added.
