Cyclone Sitrang, the primary in post-monsoon season within the north Indian ocean, is anticipated to develop over the west-central Bay of Bengal on Monday and is prone to skirt the Odisha coast and attain West Bengal and Bangladesh coasts on Tuesday. Most fashions are indicating that it’s going to make landfall in Bangladesh as a extreme cyclone on Tuesday.
A low-pressure space shaped over the north Andaman Sea and adjoining areas and the southeast Bay of Bengal on Thursday and endured over the area on Friday. It’s prone to transfer west-northwestwards and focus right into a melancholy over the southeast and adjoining east-central Bay of Bengal on Saturday.
It’s going to then transfer northwestwards and intensify additional right into a deep melancholy over the east-central and adjoining south-east Bay of Bengal on Sunday. It’s prone to recurve regularly northwards and intensify right into a cyclonic storm over the west-central and adjoining east-central Bay of Bengal by Monday. It’s prone to transfer north-northeastwards and attain nearer to West Bengal and Bangladesh coasts on Tuesday, skirting Odisha.
As of Friday, fashions recommend that Cyclone Sitrang is anticipated to accentuate right into a extreme cyclone (90-100 gusting to 110 kmph) throughout landfall. “…it’s going to undoubtedly influence the adjoining West Bengal coast, particularly 24 Paraganas,” stated India Meteorological Division (IMD)’s cyclone monitoring division in cost Ananda Kumar Das.
He stated the ocean floor temperature is above regular over the a part of the Bay of Bengal, the place Cyclone Sitrang is creating, however it has additionally been raining in that area. “So the water is getting cooled. This may increasingly stop its additional intensification to a really extreme cyclone.”
Das stated heavy rain with sturdy winds will hit Odisha and West Bengal coasts from Monday and requested native individuals to be ready. He added cyclones within the post-monsoon season have been extra extreme over the past 20 years.
Gale wind velocity reaching 70-80 kmph gusting to 90 kmph is probably going in west-central and adjoining areas of east-central and north Bay of Bengal on Monday. Squally wind velocity reaching 45-55 kmph gusting to 65 kmph is probably going alongside and off Odisha and West Bengal coasts.
On Tuesday, gale wind velocity reaching 90-100 kmph and gusting to 110 kmph is probably going over the north and adjoining the central Bay of Bengal and alongside and off West Bengal and Bangladesh coasts. Gale wind velocity reaching 90-100 kmph gusting to 110 kmph is probably going there until October 26.
Widespread mild to average rainfall with remoted heavy rain and thunderstorms/lightning is probably going in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karaikal, Kerala and Mahe, Odisha, and Gangetic West Bengal till October 26.