CHENNAI: Chennai and its neighbouring districts are likely to receive heavy rainfall on Saturday, October 4, said the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), Chennai, in its forecast on Thursday. As a prelude to it, the city may also receive one or two spells of moderate rain with thunderstorms and lightning on Friday, it added.

According to the forecast, a well-marked low-pressure area over the west-central Bay of Bengal concentrated into a depression on Wednesday. It then moved north-northwestwards and intensified into a deep depression, with its centre near West Bengal and the adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal.

The system is very likely to continue moving north-northwestwards and cross the coasts of Odisha and adjoining Andhra Pradesh between Gopalpur and Paradip by the night of Octobe

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