Chennai, Dec. 1 -- With the deep depression, a remnant of the weakened cyclone Ditwah, staying close to the Chennai coast in the Bay of Bengal, a red alert for extremely heavy rainfall for the next 12 hours has been issued to Chennai and neighbouring Tiruvallur district on Monday evening.
The system is so close to the city that the centre of the system from Chennai coast is about 30 km and it is moving at a slow pace of 3 kmph, the Regional Meteorological Centre said in its latest update, adding that it is moving parallelly northwards toward south Andhra Pradesh coast. Under its influence, Tirupati and Nellore districts would receive heavy rains accompanied by squally winds up to 60 kmph, before the deep depression is likely to fizzle out ...