India, Dec. 2 -- 15 of 32 Tamil Nadu's districts received more than 10 times the normal rainfall on December 1

Heavy rainfall in the past few days has flooded several regions of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

Seventeen people were killed in a single house collapse in Coimbatore due to heavy rainfall. The situation might worsen due to a low-pressure area in the Arabian Sea, which can intensify the already active North East Monsoon brought in by the North Easterly winds.

According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the low-pressure area is going to intensify further in the next few days, transforming into a depression but its track will take it away from the Indian mainland into the East Central Arabian Sea where it is likely to d...