Schools Closed In Chennai, 6 Other Tamil Nadu Districts Tomorrow For Rain

Chennai:

Colleges and schools in seven districts of Tamil Nadu, together with Tirunelveli in state capital Chennai, shall be closed tomorrow in anticipation of heavy rains. The India Meteorological Division forecasts “very heavy” rainfall in Tirunelveli and Kanniyakumari districts tomorrow and “heavy” rainfall in Ramanathapuram and Thoothukudi.

Many districts within the state received a respite from rains as we speak amid a “very heavy” rain forecast. Chennai acquired solely as much as 6.5 mm of rain until 5:30 pm, Kanniyakumari 4 mm, Nagapattinam 17 mm, Thoothukudi 0.5 mm, Thiruchendur 11 mm, and Kodaikanal 15 mm.

Nonetheless, Cuddalore acquired 7 cm and Puducherry 6.6 cm of rain. 

A crimson alert for heavy rainfall was issued for five districts of the state by the weather department two days in the past, following which colleges and schools had been closed in 22 districts after a number of areas had been flooded.

Incessant rains have battered the state and induced widespread harm to crops, buildings, and roads. It has additionally led to waterlogging and flooding in a number of areas until now.

Officers are bracing for waterlogging, extreme crop damages, uprooting of timber, harm to cattle, and a rise in water ranges within the rivers and lakes following the heavy rainfall warning.

Crops unfold over greater than 50,000 hectares have been battered by heavy rain in Tamil Nadu until now which acquired 68 per cent greater than the typical downpour this monsoon season.

Greater than 2,300 houses have been broken because of the heavy rain which has been pounding the state since October. Two-thirds of the state received flooded because the rain peaked with two successive spells within the second week of November.