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Informist, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024

MUMBAI – The deep depression over the southwest Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify as a cyclonic storm in the next six hours, the India Meteorological Department said Friday. The cyclone is likely to cross northern Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts between Karaikal and Mahabalipuram on Saturday afternoon with a wind speed of 70–80 kilometres per hour gusting to 90 km/hour, the Met department said. 

Under its influence, extremely heavy rainfall is very likely over parts of Tamil Nadu and Rayalaseema till Saturday. The weather department issued a red alert for Tamil Nadu and Rayalaseema on Friday and Saturday and for coastal Andhra Pradesh on Saturday. A red alert indicates rainfall of over 204.4 mm in 24 hours.

The weather department issued a warning for fishermen and asked them not to venture into the southwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining areas of west-central Bay of Bengal, Gulf of Mannar and along Tamil Nadu-Puducherry, south Andhra Pradesh and east Sri Lanka coasts till Saturday evening.

Moderate to high flash flood risk is very likely over a few watersheds and neighbourhoods of coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalaseema, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry. Surface run-off or inundation may occur in some fully saturated soils and low-lying areas over areas where heavy rainfall is expected in the next 24 hours, the IMD said.

Meanwhile, dense fog conditions are very likely to prevail during late night and early morning hours in isolated pockets of Uttar Pradesh till Monday. The IMD sees cold wave conditions very likely in isolated pockets over Madhya Maharashtra Friday. 

During the next five days, northwest and east India and Madhya Pradesh are unlikely to see any large change in minimum temperatures. A gradual rise in minimum temperature by 3-4 degrees Celsius is very likely over central India during the next three to four days, the IMD said. There will not be any change in minimum temperatures in western India during the next 24 hours, but a gradual rise will be seen during the subsequent 2–4 days, it said. End

Reported by J. Navya Sruthi

Edited by Saji George Titus

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