Cyclone Tej: India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday stated {that a} low-pressure space over the southeast and southwest Arabian Sea has developed right into a despair and is expected to intensify right into a cyclonic storm by the morning of October 21. This could be the second cyclonic storm in the Arabian Sea this yr. According to a components adopted for naming cyclones in the Indian Ocean Region, it can be referred to as ‘Tej’.
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Cyclonic storm is doubtless to additional intensify
According to the IMD, the cyclonic storm is doubtless to additional intensify right into a extreme cyclonic storm by Sunday (October 22) and transfer in direction of the south coasts of Oman and neighbouring Yemen. However, meteorologists warning that at occasions, storms could deviate from the expected observe and depth, as seen in the case of Cyclone Biparjoy, which shaped in the Arabian Sea in June and initially moved in a north-northwest course earlier than altering course to make landfall between Mandvi in Gujarat and Karachi in Pakistan.
According to the climate division, the despair over the southwest Arabian Sea moved westwards and lay centered over the identical area at 11.30 am, which is about 900 km east-southeast of Socotra in Yemen and 1,170 km southeast of Oman’s Salalah airport.
Storm heading for Yemen-Oman coast
“Depression over SW Arabian Sea intensified into DD about 880 km E-SE of Socotra (Yemen).To intensify into a CS over SW Arabian Sea during next 12 hours and further intensify into a SCS in the evening of 22nd Oct. To cross Oman-Yemen coasts bet Salalah (Oman) & Al Ghaidah (Yemen),” IMD stated.
Skymet Weather, a personal forecasting company, additionally stated {that a} majority of the fashions indicated that the cyclonic storm was heading in direction of the Yemen-Oman coast. However, the Global Forecast System fashions recommend a recurvature whereas positioned over the deep central elements of the Arabian Sea, steering the system in direction of Pakistan and the Gujarat coast, it stated.
A cyclonic storm is characterised by a most sustained wind velocity of 62-88 kmph, whereas it is termed a extreme cyclonic storm if the utmost sustained wind velocity reaches 89-117 km per hour.
Weather warnings for subsequent 5 days:
South India: Light to reasonable rainfall at some/many locations with remoted heavy rainfall accompanied with thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds very doubtless over Kerala on October 23 and 24.
Northeast India: Light to reasonable rainfall at some/many locations with remoted heavy rainfall accompanied with thunderstorms and lightning very doubtless over Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura on October 24.
Meanwhile, the IMD has suggested fishermen not to enterprise into the ocean because the cyclonic storm is predicted to additional intensify right into a ‘severe’ cyclonic storm on October 22.
