Chennai: Heavy rain is prone to happen at remoted puts over Kanyakumari, Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, Ramanathapuram and Tenkasi districts, the India Meteorological Division (IMD) mentioned on Thursday.

The melancholy over the southwest Bay of Bengal moved West-South Westwards at 15 km in step with hour and crossed the Sri Lanka coast on Thursday morning bringing heavy rainfall in South districts which affected normalcy.

In line with IMD, the machine within the Bay of Bengal is prone to proceed to transport West-South westwards throughout South Sri Lanka and emerge into Comorin and the adjacent Gulf of Mannar off the West Coast of Sri Lanka via early morning of February 3.

Significantly, as a result of the Melancholy within the Bay of Bengal, rains” heavy rains lashed the southern districts of the state, particularly Nagapattinam, Thiruvarur and Mayiladuthurai.

Within the remaining 24 hours, Vedaranyam of Nagapattinam districts recorded 7 cm of rainfall.

Kodiayakarai (in Nagapattinam district), and Thirupoondi (in Nagapattinam district) won 6 cm of rainfall, whilst Thalaignayiru (in Nagapattinam district) recorded 4 cm of rainfall.

Within the wake of constant heavy rainfall, colleges and schools in Nagapattinam and Thiruvarur districts had been close for Thursday, senior officers mentioned.

In Nagapattinam and Thiruvarur, the place farming is a significant dependency of the local community, farmers had been affected as a result of the continual rainfall.

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