Cyclone Fengal Warning For Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Landfall Likely Tomorrow

Chennai: 

The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal has intensified into a cyclone – named Fengal, pronounced ‘Feinjal’ – and is likely to cross the Tamil Nadu coast between Karaikal and Mamallapuram mid-Saturday, the India Meteorological Department said this evening.

The cyclone is expected to carry winds at 70-80 km per hour with gusts up 90 kph.

“The deep depression over southwest Bay of Bengal moved north-northwest at 13 kph in the past six hours (and has) intensified into Cyclonic Storm Fengal… at 2.30 pm (on November 29) it lay 270 km east-southeast of Puducherry and 300 km southeast of Chennai,” the IMD said.

“It is likely to move west-northwest and cross north Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts between Karaikal and Mamallapuram (but closer to Puducherry) as a Cyclonic Storm…”