Chennai, Oct 27 (UNI) As the Cyclonic storm Montha started moving towards Chennai, heavy rains lashed Chennai and its adjoining districts since morning and its gained in intensify tonight, even as a holiday was declared for all schools in the city and neighbouring districts tomorrow as the Met office has issued Orange Alert forecasting very heavy rainfall.

Though the city and suburbs has been receiving incessant rains since morning, it gained intensity by evening albeit after a brief stopover, before it further became stronger tonight.

As the Met Office has forecast very heavy rains for Chennai and Tiruvallur, the respectieve district administrations have declared a holiday for schools alone tomorrow.

The announcement was made late tonight.

The heavy rains left several areas waterlogg

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