A war room has been set up at Chennai Corporation where the civic body’s officials are monitoring the red alert situation because of heavy rain.
The heavy downpours continued to trouble Tamil Nadu’s Chennai throughout Wednesday, November 17. The city on Wednesday night received 2 cm of rainfall. Schools and colleges in Chennai, Tiruvallur, Kanchipuram, Ranipet, Dindugal, Pudhukottai, Theni, Vellore, Ariyallur, Nagapattinam, Villupura, Thiruvarur, Mayiladudhurai, Kallakurichi, Cuddalore, Villipuram, Thanjavur, and Dharmapuri will remain shut on Thursday.
A war room has been set up at Chennai Corporation where the civic body’s officials are monitoring the red alert situation because of heavy rain.
A thunderstorm with heavy to very heavy with isolated extremely heavy rainfall is likely in Tiruvallur, Chennai, Kancheepuram and Ranipettai districts of Tamil Nadu on Thursday, according to the Regional Meteorological Centre's forecast. On the same day, heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to occur at isolated places in Tiruvannamalai, Villupuram, Cuddalore, Chengalpattu, Tirupattur and Vellore districts.