The Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), which had accurately forecast the sea swell surges across the east and west coast, continued to caution coastal states to remain alert to the sea being rough with high waves and inundation of low-lying areas.
Senior scientist and group director T.M. Balakrishnan Nair informed on Sunday that the notified coastal states of Kerala, south Tamil Nadu, Lakshadweep, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Northern Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, West Bengal, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands, may experience the swell surge till alerts are lifted.
The feedback from the Kerala State Disaster Management Authority (KSDMA) and others said that there were damages reported at a few scattered coastal districts of Kerala and some locations in southern Tamil Nadu. Water gushed into the low-lying areas around May 4 and surging of water is still being experienced in these affected areas as of Sunday forenoon.
