IMD Weather Forecast: The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) in an official statement has issued heavy rain alert for Tamil Nadu coast and Puducherry. IMD has said that torrential rains are expected in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal from today to next two days.
The low pressure area over southwest Bay of Bengal while moving towards the north coast of Tamil Nadu on Thursday morning intensified into an extremely low pressure area, gusting to 40 to 50 kmph.
According to the Meteorological Department, it is very likely to intensify into a low pressure area in the next 24 hours and during the next 48 hours it is likely to move west-northwestwards along the east coast of Sri Lanka and towards north Tamil Nadu coast. Is.
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According to the department, at around 5.30 am, the pressure area is about 470 km south-southeast of Trincomalee (Sri Lanka) adjoining the equatorial Indian Ocean, in addition to southwest of the Bay of Bengal, about 760 km south-south of Nagapattinam (Tamil Nadu). In the east, centered about 870 km south-southeast of Puducherry and about 950 km south-southeast of Chennai.
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– IMD has said that wind speed reaching 45-55 kmph gusting to 65 kmph and bad weather will occur over west-central and adjoining southwest Gulf and north Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh coasts on Friday and Saturday. likely to stay.
According to the Meteorological Department, wind speed reaching 40-50 kmph gusting to 60 kmph can occur along the coasts of North Tamil Nadu and South Andhra Pradesh on Sunday. According to the department, isolated heavy rains are expected over Coastal Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal on Friday, while extremely heavy rains are expected at some places on Saturday.
The department has also issued a warning of strong winds and asked fishermen not to venture into the sea in south Bay of Bengal and adjoining Indian Ocean, Gulf of Mannar and Comorin areas till March 5.
The IMD said that there is a possibility of widespread rain and snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir-Ladakh-Gilgit-Baltistan-Muzaffarabad and isolated areas of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand on Friday with thunder and lightning.
The official statement also mentioned that there is a possibility of rain today in the Western Himalayan region and adjoining plains. Apart from this, one more fresh rain may occur during March 6 to 8 and there is a possibility of heavy rains in Jammu and Kashmir on March 6.
During the next 24 hours, isolated light rain is likely over Punjab, Haryana-Chandigarh and West Uttar Pradesh. According to an official statement, strong winds (speed reaching 25-35 kmph) are very likely to prevail over most parts of plains of Northwest India on March 04 over Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi and Rajasthan.
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