The India Meteorological Department (IMD) announced that the Deep Depression over the Southwest Bay of Bengal intensified into Cyclonic Storm Fengal at 2:30 p.m. IST on Wednesday, November 29. The cyclone is predicted to bring strong winds and heavy rainfall to the affected regions as it makes landfall.

Meanwhile, Cyclone Fengal has already caused massive damage in Tamil Nadu’s Nagapattinam district, with heavy rainfall submerging paddy crops in over 800 acres of land. Farmers in affected areas, including Kamashwaram, Virundhamavadi, and Pudupalli, are facing distress as their crops are completely submerged.

The deep depression brewing over the Southwest Bay of Bengal, which was initially expected to intensify into a cyclonic storm, is likely to gradually weaken into a depression as it approaches the north Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts.

The cyclone is expected to pack winds with a speed of 70 to 80 km per hour gusting up to 90 km per hour, bringing widespread rainfall across coastal districts of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry till December 1.

The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal is "very likely" to cross the coast as a depression on November 30 between Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, the India Meteorological Department said on Friday.

RESCUE teams said they had recovered four drowned children killed in a flash flood, with four other people missing, after torrential rains from a powerful but slow-­moving storm now heading towards India.

The deep depression over the southwest Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a cyclone by Thursday night. According to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, or BMD, the influence of the storm may result in light rain in the southern part of the country.

The cyclone is predicted to intensify over the next 48 hours, bringing heavy rain, strong winds, and a risk of flooding to the coastal areas of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Andhra Pradesh.

A deep depression in the Bay of Bengal is intensifying into a cyclonic storm, threatening coastal Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The storm is expected to skirt Sri Lanka before reaching the Tamil Nadu coast around November 30th,

In response to the growing threat posed by Cyclone Fengal, the Indian Navy's Eastern Naval Command has activated its disaster relief operations. Working alongside the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Naval Area,