Newsinc24 Team 
In Tamil Nadu, heavy downpours continued to trouble Chennai throughout Wednesday. Schools and colleges in Chennai, Tiruvallur, Kanchipuram, Ranipet, Dindugal, Pudhukottai, Theni, Vellore, Ariyallur, Nagapattinam, Villupura, Thiruvarur, Mayiladudhurai, Kallakurichi, Cuddalore, Villipuram, Thanjavur, and Dharmapuri will remain shut on Thursday. A war room has been set up at Chennai Corporation where the civic body’s officials are monitoring the red alert situation because of heavy rain.Rainfall in several parts of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and Karaikkal is expected till November 21.
A thunderstorm with heavy to very heavy with isolated extremely heavy rainfall is likely in Tiruvallur, Chennai, Kancheepuram and Ranipettai districts of Tamil Nadu on Thursday, according to the Regional Meteorological Centre's forecast. On the same day, heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to occur at isolated places in Tiruvannamalai, Villupuram, Cuddalore, Chengalpattu, Tirupattur and Vellore districts. S Balachandran, Southern regional head for India Meteorological Department, forecast extremely heavy rainfall for Chennai, Tiruvallur, Kanchipuram, and Chengalpattu on Thursday. “There is a low-pressure area in the Bay of Bengal. It is moving towards us and there is a low-pressure area in the Arabian Sea as well. Under the influence of the two systems in the east and the west, there will be heavy rainfall,” he said.
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