Coastal districts may experience heavy rains and strong surface winds on December 3 and December 4 as the deep depression over southwest Bay of Bengal is likely grow into a cyclonic storm by December 3. Though the weather system may give Chennai and north Tamil Nadu a miss, it is expected to dump heavy rains in coastal region as it travels further north on both Sunday and Monday.
Heavy rains are set to pick up pace and spread to the north coastal and interior belts by December 3.
Cyclone, which is likely to be named Michaung, is expected to intensify into a cyclonic storm by December 3 and reach west-central Bay of Bengal off the southern Andhra Pradesh and northern Tamil Nadu coast, by December 4 forenoon. The Regional Meteorological Centre has forecast the cyclone, is likely to cross the southern Andhra Pradesh between Nellore and Machilipatnam.
