Super cyclone Mocha ‘will weaken into very severe cyclonic storm during next…’ says IMD

Mocha Cyclone: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday knowledgeable that the system is continuous the weakening pattern and can weaken into a very severe cyclonic storm during the subsequent 3 hours. It was situated close to Latitude 20.5N and Longitude 92.9E at 1430 IST, about 40 km north of Myanmar’s Sittwe and 145 km southeast of ‘s Cox’s Bazar.

Mocha made landfall 

A senior Met official on Sunday knowledgeable that it made landfall alongside the Myanmar-Bangladesh coasts after intensifying into the equal of a category-five storm. “The ‘eye’ or the centre point of the cyclone made its landfall shortly after midday today on the Teknaf shorelines, coming through the Naf River, ahead of its anticipated time,” Bangladesh Met workplace spokesman AKM Nazmul Huda instructed PTI.

He mentioned the tail or the remaining a part of the severe storm, which was categorised as a very harmful category-five cyclone, may take extra time to cross the coastlines.

The system is continuous the weakening pattern

‘It lay centered at 1430 hours IST of right this moment the 14th May 2023 over coastal Myanmar close to  latitude 20.5°N and longitude 92.9°E, about 40 km north of Sittwe (Myanmar) and 145 km southeast of Cox’s Bazar (Bangladesh). The system is continuous the weakening pattern and can weaken into a very severe cyclonic storm during subsequent 3 hours,’ IMD knowledgeable. 

Bangladesh’s St Martin’s island might go underwater quickly

As Cyclone Mocha intensifies and winds are getting stronger, Saint Martin’s, the one and solely coral island of Bangladesh, might go quickly underwater, based on the pinnacle of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD), reported Dhaka Tribune.

“Since there is no major infrastructure on the island, the storm will not get obstructed anywhere and hit the island directly. As the centre of the storm passes over St Martin’s, water will move from one side of the island to the other, and due to the intensity of the storm, the island may be underwater for some time,” BMD Director Md Azizur Rahman mentioned on Sunday.

(with inputs from companies)

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