The India Meteorological Department (IMD), in its latest update on Cyclone Fengal, said that the cyclonic storm has moved west-southwestwards with a speed of 10 kmph during the past six hours and lay centred at 9.30 pm on Saturday over the southwest Bay of Bengal close to North Tamil Nadu-Puducherry coasts. It is positioned 50 km south-southwest of Mahabalipuram, 30 km northeast of Puducherry and 90 km south-southwest of Chennai.

The cyclonic storm is likely to move west-southwestwards and cross north the Tamil Nadu-Puducherry coasts between Karaikal and Mahabalipuram close to Puducherry with a wind speed of 70-80 kmph gusting to 90 kmph during the next two hours. The landfall process will continue during the same period, IMD said.