Tamil Nadu Mandous Cyclone Live Updates:  The IMD on Thursday (December 8) warned the state of Tamil Nadu of heavy rainfall as cyclonic storm ‘Mandous’ over the Bay of Bengal is expected to cross the coast between Puducherry and Sriharikota in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh on the midnight of December 9, 2022.

IMD predicted that Cyclone Mandous will move west-northwestwards and intensify further gradually into a Cyclonic Storm and cross north Tamilnadu, Puducherry, and adjoining south Andhra Pradesh coast between Puducherry and Sriharikota around 10th December.

Red Alert in Tamil Nadu amid cyclone Mandous 

IMD has issued Red alert to three districts in Chengalpattu, Villupuram and Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu today as the Cyclone Mandous intensifies into severe cyclonic storm.

Heavy rains in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh

IMD predicted light to moderate rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places and extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places very likely over north coastal Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall likely over adjoining south Coastal Andhra Pradesh and north interior Tamilnadu and Rayalaseema for December 9, 2022.

As per the latest update Cyclone, Mandous is over the Southwest Bay of Bengal and it is expected to cross north Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and the adjoining south AP coast by Puducherry and Sriharikota with a wind speed of 70 kmph around midnight of December 9, 2022.

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