With the possibility of the sea becoming rough from December 1, fishermen have been restrained from placing out to sea from Monday.
Heavy rains and robust winds are anticipated to lash components of Kerala in the coming days below the influence of a low stress region off south Andaman Sea and adjoining Bay of Bengal, with IMD issuing a red alert for Idukki district on Wednesday and fishermen restrained from placing out to sea from the midnight of November 30. The IMD on Sunday issued an Orange alert for Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam and Pathanamthitta districts on December 2 and a yellow alert for Alappuzha, Kottayam and Ernakulam districts on the very same day.
Red alert indicates heavy to extremely heavy rainfall of more than 20 cm in 24 hours,an Orange alert (6 cm to 20 cm) and yellow alert (6-11 cm). Heavy rains have been forecastas a low stress region lies more than South Andaman and adjoining places of Southeast Bay of Bengal and Equatorial Indian ocean, an IMD release mentioned. It is extremely probably to concentrate into a Depression through the subsequent 36 hours and probably to intensify additional thereafter, the IMD mentioned.
The formation was probably to move west-northwestwards and attain south Tamil Nadu coast on December 2, IMD mentioned adding it was “monitoring the situation”. With the possibility of the sea becoming rough from December 1, fishermen have been restrained from placing out to sea from Monday.