several days of heavy rainfall to southern India, forcing 50,000 people to evacuate. Low-lying areas of Chennai were inundated, disrupting travel by road, rail, and air, and causing schools to close. A car was washed away, killing three people in the city. Two people in Chennai were electrocuted, and the provincial electric board shut off power in heavily flooded areas. The rains flooded of crop fields and inundated many rail lines. Across Andhra Pradesh, 1,045 houses collapsed, and the rains killed at least 100 people. Cyclonic Storm Baaz An area of convection formed on November 26 in the eastern Bay of Bengal within an area of moderate wind shear. As the shear decreased, the convection organized about a developing circulation. On November 27, the JTWC classified the system as Tropical Cyclone 07B, and the next day, the IMD classified it as a depression. That day, the agency quickly upgraded it to Cyclonic Storm Baaz. By that time, the storm was moving steadily westward due to a ridge to the north. On November 29, the IMD estimated peak 3 minute winds of . Increasing wind shear weakened Baaz on December 1, in conjunction with the storm turning to the west-northwest. The storm quickly deteriorated, and the IMD downgraded it to a remnant low on December 2, the same day that the JTWC issued their final advisory. The remnants continued to the west, eventually crossing the Indian coast north of Pondicherry on December 3. The precursor to the storm brought heavy rainfall to southern Thailand, reaching in Ko Samui. The rains killed 11 people in the country and caused ฿400 million (Thai baht, US$10 million) in damage. The remnants also dropped heavy rainfall in southern India, with a daily peak of in Tambaram. The rains flooded several villages in Tamil Nadu, killing 11 people. Cyclonic Storm Fanoos A low-pressure area developed on December 4 in the south Andaman Sea. It consisted of a circulation with increasingly organized convection. The system moved west-southwestward through the Bay of Bengal due to a ridge to the north, organizing into a depression two days later. That day, the JTWC also classified it as Tropical Cyclone 06B. Moderate wind shear allowed the system to strengthen further, and the IMD classified it as Cyclonic Storm Fanoos early on December 7. Later that day, the agency estimated peak 3 minute winds of . Two days later, the JTWC estimated