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Updated - October 24, 2026 10:28 am IST

School students back to home after the district administration declared a holiday due to rain in Vellore. | Photo Credit: C. Venkatachalapathy

The weather system over the Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a cyclone and cross the southern Odisha–northern Andhra Pradesh coast by October 28. According to the India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) Bhubaneswar Met Centre, a low-pressure area over east-central and adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal persisted over the same region at 8.30 a.m. on Friday (October 23, 2026).

The IMD predicted moderate to heavy rainfall across Tamil Nadu and Puducherry until October 26. General moderate rainfall is expected over the next two days in Chennai and its neighbourhood, with potential for heavy downpour on Saturday (October 24, 2026) and Sunday (October 25, 2026).

Heavy rains lashed Tiruchi and other delta districts on Friday evening. The heavy rain, accompanied by lightning and thunder, slowed down traffic during the evening peak hours. Traffic snarls were reported in several parts of the city.

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A low-pressure area formed over the east-central and adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal at 5.30 a.m. on Friday is expected to become a depression on Saturday, a deep depression on Sunday and a cyclonic storm by Monday morning, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. It may then move towards the north Andhra Pradesh and south Odisha coasts.

K. Naga Ratna, Head of the Amaravati Meteorological Centre, Andhra Pradesh, said the weather system was likely to cross the coast in the early hours of October 28 and move away towards Odisha the next day.

Cyclone likely to hit North Andhra coast by Oct 28 with red alerts for extreme rain; fishermen urged to return and evacuations advised.

Large parts of northern India have shifted towards a hotter and drier climate over the past 70 years, with the dry zone that once ended in western Uttar Pradesh now extending into the east of the state, according to a new study.

The study found that much of peninsular India became wetter over the same period.

The study, ‘Identifying the climate zones shifts of Indian meteorological subdivisions: insights from historical records’, was published in Mausam, a peer-reviewed journal of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), and made public on Friday.

The weather system over the Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a cyclone and cross the southern Odisha–northern Andhra Pradesh coast by October 28.

According to the India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) Bhubaneswar Met Centre, a low-pressure area over east-central and adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal persisted over the same region at 8.30 a.m. on Friday.

Low-pressure near Bay of Bengal expected to become a cyclonic storm by Oct 26, prompting Odisha coastal precautions.

Published - October 24, 2026 09:54 am IST

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