With overnight rains bringing heavy inflows, the floodgates of two major reservoirs of Chennai at Chembarambakkam and Poondi were opened wider to regulate the water level and prevent flood risk on Wednesday (October 22, 2025).

The well-marked low pressure area that lies over southwest Bay of Bengal off the Tamil Nadu coast brought torrential rains in several parts of Tamil Nadu. The 90 major water bodies in the State now have a storage of 87.7% of their total capacity of 224.34 thousand million cubic feet.

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Likelihood of depression

As it continues to move northwestwards, the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), Chennai has predicted a possibility of the system gathering strength as a depression over the southwest

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