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Vibha Sharma
New Delhi, December 9
Mandous over southwest Bay of Bengal is weakening into a cyclonic storm.
It would move northwest and cross north Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and adjoining south Andhra Pradesh coasts between Puducherry and Sriharikota around Mahabalipuram as a cyclonic storm during midnight -- December 9 night to early hours of December 10, according to the IMD.
Its maximum sustained wind speed will be 65-75 kmph gusting to 85 kmph.
Mandous moved west-northwest with a speed of 13 kmph and lay centered at 5.30am on Friday over southwest Bay of Bengal near latitude 11°N and longitude 81.7°E, about 270 km north-northeast of Trincomalee (Sri Lanka), 230 km east-northeast of Jaffna (Sri Lanka), 200 km east of Karaikal and about 270 km south-southeast of Chennai, the weather office said.
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