Schools in Puducherry reopen after Cyclone Fengal, except in flooded areas, with some schools closed for another day.

Cyclone Fengal has resulted in extremely heavy rainfall in coastal regions of north Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. Particularly affected was the Sankaraparani River in Puducherry, where over 200 residences in NR Nagar were inundated.

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Cyclone Fengal weakened on Sunday, a day after making landfall near Puducherry, however, torrential rain under its influence pounded the union territory, which logged the highest rainfall in three decades, prompting the deployment of Army and the NDRF to evacuate stranded people from inundated streets.

Schools in several parts of southern India are closed today because of heavy rainfall due to cyclone Fengal. Cyclone Fengal, which made landfall on the coasts of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on Saturday,

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) released a statement on Monday (Dec 2) stating that a depression formed by the remnants of Cyclonic Storm Fengal, was now progressing west-northwestward over northern coastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry almost at a speed of 7 km/h over the past six hours.

The IMD reported that the depression from Cyclone Fengal is moving west-northwest and is expected to weaken into a low-pressure area. Heavy rainfall has prompted school holidays in Puducherry, Kerala,