Slowly moving northwards, Cyclone Maha likely to bring heavy rainfall in South Gujarat

News Bharati    02-Nov-2019
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New Delhi, November 2: The cyclonic storm Maha which was over east-central Arabian Sea has moved further west-north westwards with a speed of 19 kilometers per hour in the past six hours. It is very likely to intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm over east-central Arabian sea during the next 24 hours, the IMD stated in its All India Weather Forecast Bulletin.

The weather forecast agency further forecasted that the depression over west-central Arabian Sea has also moved west-southwestwards with a speed of 24 kmph during past six hours. The cyclone is very likely to move northwestwards during the next 24 hours and towards west-northwestwards between Saturday to Monday and recurve east-northeastwards towards south Gujarat coast thereafter. Also, under the influence of cyclonic circulation over Gulf of Thailand and neighbourhood, a low-pressure area is likely to form over north Andaman Sea on November 3.
 
Due to the prevailing weather system, rain and thundershowers were observed yesterday at many places over Lakshadweep and at a few places over Madhya Maharashtra and at isolated places over West Rajasthan, Saurashtra, Kutch, Madhya Pradesh, Konkan and Goa. Besides these regions, Coastal and North Interior Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal were also battered by rains on Friday. Cyclone effect was seen on several parts of Saurashtra coast yesterday and coastal parts of Amreli such as Pipalav, Jafarabad received rainfall. Sea is getting rough and fishermen have been advised not to venture into the sea following the rising sea levels.