chennai sources stated that the regional weather office said tamilnadu and puducherry are in for widespread rains with a depression over Comorin area likely to intensify into a deep depression in the next 24 hours and into a cyclonic storm later. Meanwhile S Balachandran, director, Area Cyclone Warning Centre, said the depression lay 220 km southwest of Thiruvananthapuram in kerala and is likely to move northwestwards across lakshadweep and intensify into a deep depression."
Furthermore it is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm during the subsequent 48 hours and Balachandran advised fishermen from venturing into the sea along Kanyakumari, Lakshdweep, and south kerala coast on october 31. Perhaps tamilnadu and puducherry received good rains in the last 24 hours with 80 places recording heavy to very heavy rains. Tiruttani in Tiruvallore district recorded the highest rainfall of 19 cm.
Moreover he forecast widespread rains in tamilnadu and puducherry in the next 24 hours, saying heavy rains were likely in areas like Kanyakumari, tirunelveli, Ramanathapuram and Madurai. Apparently official sources said puducherry and its suburbs recorded 9 cm rain during the last 24 hours ending 8.30 a.m.
