Flight operations at Chennai airport has been affected due to the heavy rains as Cyclone Michaung is expected to cross the coastal areas of Tamil Nadu on Monday.
Several flights have been cancelled and some of them have been diverted. The entire runway and airplane parking zone of the Chennai airport are filled with water.
Heavy rain lashed Chennai through the night on Monday as Cyclone Michaung inching closer near the Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh coast.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted that the city and its neighbouring districts would experience extremely heavy rain in the next 24 hours.
The death toll from Chennai's widespread deluge, caused by Cyclone Michaung, has gone up to 17 on Tuesday, police said. While the hours-long heavy rain in the city stopped on Monday night, streets remained waterlogged.
Coastal Andhra Pradesh, meanwhile, saw massive downpour on Tuesday, after Cyclone Michaung made landfall in the state, between Nellore and Kavali. Authorities in the state have moved around 9,500 people from vulnerable areas into 211 relief camps across affected districts. No casualties were reported in Andhra Pradesh.
The 17 deaths that took place in Chennai since Monday were mostly due to drowning, electrocution, collapsing walls and falling trees. Several others were injured.
Tamil Nadu authorities have moved 32,158 people to relief camps over two days.
Winternights3 The Ministry of the Environment here in Canada just told us that this winter will be milder with less snow. Then proceeded to say of course, they can't really predict precipitation. Or how much the El Nino will affect things. So why bother saying anything at all? All they want to do, really, is push the global warming agenda.
ReRan The weather is moving rapidly and following magnetic North, your weather is likely to change as is mine in the Uk.
Its interesting the the media is now referring to meteorological seasonal adjustments not astronomical one's, this slight of hand adjustment moves the Seasons forward by 3.5 weeks.
Theres a massive shift taking place, as in the location where the cold air now circulates in the northern hemisphere, this is why the Asian continent is experiencing such wet a cold weather conditions.
The Sahara desert will move North into Spain I believe and the UK will become subtropical, such a move will impact across the globe, there's nowt new here, just Milankovitch cycles playing out.👍
The WRITING is on the proverbial WALL, so please don't expect that the authorities will tell one so.