Storm brewing in southeast Bay of Bengal, likely to intensify into Cyclone Mocha; IMD issues warning | Latest Updates

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Storm brewing in southeast Bay of Bengal, likely to intensify into Cyclone Mocha; IMD issues warning | Latest Updates


Image Source : PTI (REPRESENTATIONAL IMAGE) Storm brewing in southeast Bay of Bengal, likely to intensify into Cyclone Mocha; IMD issues warning

Cyclone Mocha: India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday knowledgeable that Low-Pressure Area is likely to type over the Bay of Bengal in the present day and can intensify into a melancholy over the Southeast Bay of Bengal round May 9. The climate workplace earlier on Saturday knowledgeable {that a} cyclonic circulation has fashioned in the southeast Bay of Bengal. The formation of cyclonic circulation is taken into account step one of the event of a doable extreme cyclonic storm in the area subsequent week. 

‘Yesterday’s cyclonic circulation over southeast BoB  lay over southeast BoB & adjn South Andaman Sea at 0830 IST of seventh  May. LPA is likely to type over the identical area on eighth  May. To intensify into a melancholy over SE BoB round ninth May. To intensify into a cyclonic storm,’ knowledgeable IMD. 

“A cyclonic circulation lies over southeast Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood in lower and middle tropospheric levels. Under its influence, a Low-Pressure Area is likely to form over the same region by May 8,” Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Director General, India Meteorological Department (IMD) mentioned.

Depression over the southeast Bay of Bengal round May 9

Once the low-pressure space will probably be fashioned, IMD will present the main points concerning the path and intensification. Mohapatra additional knowledgeable that the climate system is likely to focus into a melancholy over the southeast Bay of Bengal round May 9. Later, it should intensify into a cyclonic storm and can transfer practically northward in the direction of the central Bay of Bengal.

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The cyclone will probably be named Mocha (Mokha), a reputation urged by Yemen after the Red Sea port metropolis, which is thought to have launched espresso to the world over 500 years in the past, reported PTI.

IMD warned fishermen

IMD on Saturday warned fishermen of squally climate in the southeast Bay of Bengal with windspeed reaching 40-50 kmph from Sunday onwards. “Those who are over southeast Bay of Bengal are advised to return to safer places before May 7 and those over central Bay of Bengal are advised to return before May 9,” the climate workplace mentioned.

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