Torrential downpours, flooded roads, stranded pedestrians and maddening traffic painted a grim portrait of Chennai on Wednesday evening, November 29. But this rain-triggered inconvenience in the Tamil Nadu capital was merely a teaser of what’s likely to come: inevitable havoc caused by Cyclone Michuang. India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) latest bulletin, the well-marked low-pressure area stationed over the southeast Bay of Bengal has trudged west-northwestwards over the last 12 hours. As of this morning, it had concentrated into a depression and lay around 800 kilometres east-southeast from Puducherry and Chennai. From this point, it is projected to strengthen into a deep depression by Saturday, December 2 and then a cyclonic storm over the southwest Bay of Bengal on Sunday, December 3. The cyclone will hit peak intensity during the evening hours of Monday, December 4, touching maximum sustained wind speeds of 80-90 kmph, gusting to 100 kmph. Interestingly, the IMD expects Cyclone Michuang to make landfall at its peak, passing over the South Andhra Pradesh and adjoining North Tamil Nadu coast — between Chennai and Machilipatnam — around 6 pm Monday.
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Cyclone Michaung: News
Significant rain in Chennai is a precursor to Cyclone Michuang, expected to intensify and make landfall Monday evening.