Chennai: The Meteorological Department has warned that the temperature in Tamil Nadu will be 3 degrees higher today than usual. Chennai Meteorological Center Director Senthamarai Kannan said: Mostly dry weather prevails in Tamil Nadu and Puthuvai and Karaikal areas today. Showers or thundershowers will occur at several places in Tamil Nadu and Puthuvai and Karaikal from 19th (tomorrow) to 21st.
Today the maximum temperature in one or two places in Tamil Nadu may be 2 degrees Celsius to 3 degrees Celsius higher than normal. For Chennai, the sky will be partly cloudy for the next 48 hours (today and tomorrow). The maximum temperature may be around 36 degrees Celsius and the minimum temperature may be around 24 degrees Celsius.
The depression that prevailed in the central part of the South Bay of Bengal the day before yesterday morning is now prevailing in the eastern part of the Indian Ocean along the southeastern Bay of Bengal and the equator. It is likely to move east-northeast and intensify into a deep depression in the south-eastern Bay of Bengal and the adjoining southern Andaman Sea on the morning of the 19th (tomorrow). It will move in a northerly direction along the Andaman coast and strengthen into a depression on the morning of the 20th. It is expected to intensify further into a storm on the 21st and move in a northeastern direction and reach the coastal areas of Bangladesh and northern Myanmar on the morning of the 22nd.
Today, the cyclone is likely to reach 40 to 50 kmph and intermittent 60 kmph in the southeastern Bay of Bengal and adjoining southern Andaman Sea. On the 19th it may blow at speeds of up to 65 kilometers per hour. It is expected to reach 75 kmph on the 20th. On the 21st, hurricane force winds of 70 to 80 kmph and intermittent 90 kmph are expected in the Andaman Sea, Central and Bay of Bengal and adjoining Southeastern Bay of Bengal. Sea swells can be seen in these areas. Thus he said.