The very severe cyclonic storm THANE over southwest Bay of Bengal moved westward and lay at centered at 2330 hrs IST of yesterday, the 29th December 2011 near latitude 12.00N and longitude 80.60E, about 90 km east of Puducherry, 125 km south-southeast of Chennai (Tamilnadu) and 380 km northwest of Trincomalee (Sri Lanka). The system is likely to move westwards and cross north Tamil Nadu coast close to Puducherry around early morning of today, the 30th December 2011.