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Red alert: Tamil Nadu braces for a cyclone
Gulf News
|October 23, 2025
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Motorists holding umbrellas ride along a street amid heavy rains in Chennai yesterday, following a cyclone warning by the India Meteorological Department.
(AFP)
Tamil Nadu's coastal districts are on high alert as a cyclonic circulation over the South Bay of Bengal threatens to intensify into a depression, bringing widespread heavy to very heavy rainfall across the region.
According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the system moved toward north Tamil Nadu, Puducherry-Karaikal, and south Andhra Pradesh coasts.
The weather bureau has issued a cyclone warning for coastal areas and a red alert for parts of Tamil Nadu, warning of extremely heavy rainfall in some districts.
This story is from the October 23, 2025 edition of Gulf News.
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