Much to the relief of residents of flood-prone areas who still haven’t recovered from the November-December deluge, the depression over the south-west Bay of Bengal, which was threatening to become a cyclone and hit Chennai and Tamil Nadu, has started to moved north-north westwards.

According to Area Cyclone Warning Centre Director, S. Balachandran, while rains are predicted for Chennai and the rest of the state in the next 24 hours, the depression is expected to intensify into a cyclone along the coasts of Andhra and Odisha. It is currently positioned about 120 km south east off Nellore.

He has further said that the rains would decrease over the next 24 hours.