Cyclone Yaas possible to intensify into very severe cyclonic storm: IMD
Cyclone Yaas is probably going to intensify into a “very severe cyclonic storm” and cross the Odisha and the West Bengal coasts on May 26, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) mentioned on Saturday.
A low stress space fashioned over the east-central Bay of Bengal and the adjoining north Andaman Sea on Saturday. While a low stress space is the primary stage of formation of a cyclone, it’s not mandatory that each one low stress areas will intensify into cyclonic storms.
“The low pressure area is very likely to concentrate into a depression over eastcentral Bay of Bengal by tomorrow, the 23rd May morning. It is very likely to move north-northwestwards, intensify into a Cyclonic Storm by 24th May and further into a very severe cyclonic storm during the subsequent 24 hours,” the IMD mentioned.
It would proceed to transfer north-northwestwards, intensify additional and attain north Bay of Bengal close to West Bengal and the adjoining north Odisha and Bangladesh coasts by the morning of May 26, it mentioned.
“It is very likely to cross West Bengal and the adjoining north Odisha and Bangladesh coasts around the evening of 26th May,” the IMD added.
Last week, extraordinarily severe cyclone Tauktae hit the Gujarat coast and left a path of destruction all around the western coast.
As it weakened additional, its impression was felt throughout the north Indian plains and even within the hill states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. The April-May and the October-December durations are additionally recognized to witness cyclones.
Last May noticed the formation of two cyclones – one within the Bay of Bengal (tremendous cyclonic storm Amphan) and the opposite within the Arabian Sea (severe cyclonic storm Nisarga) – that hit the Indian coasts.
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