Cyclone Mandous likely to form over Bay by Dec 8

Bhubaneswar: The low pressure over southeast Ba y o f Be n g a l a n d adjoining south Andaman
sea now lies as a wellmarked area over southeast Bay of Bengal, the India M e t e o r o l o g i c a l
D e p a r t m e n t ( I M D ) informed on Tuesday. “It is likely to move westn o rt hwe stwa r d s a n d
c o n c e n t r a t e i n t o a depression over southeast Bay of Bengal by today evening. Thereafter, it is likely to continue to move we st northwe stwa rds, intensify further gradually into a cyclonic storm and reach southwest Bay of Bengal near north Tamil Na d u -Pu d u c h e rr y & adjoining south Andhra P r a d e s h c o a sts b y December 8 morning.,” it added. “We haven’t given a
forecast for landfall yet,” said RK Jenamani, senior scientist at the weather office. Some projections suggest that this system will decline into a ‘depression’ again before making a landfall around Puducherry on F r i d a y a f t e r n o o n (December 9). If the system completely evolves into a
tropical cyclone, it will be  the second post-monsoon cyclone after ‘Sitrang’ and will be named ‘Mandous’, as suggested by the United Arab Emirates. In Arabic, Mandous means a treasure
box. EXTREME RAIN & SQUALL Most places in Andaman & Ni c o b a r Isl a n d s will experience rain and squally weather with wind speed r e a ching 40-45 kmph gusting to 55 kmph on Tuesday (December 6). Rain is likely to start over north c o a st a l Tami l N a d u , Puducherry and Karaikal
from December 7 midnight and increase on December 8 and 9, the weather bureau said.
South Andhra Pradesh will see rain from December 7 midnight, whi ch will increase on December 8 and 9. Wind speeds could reach 55-65 kmph gusting to 75 kmph on December 7, and gale wind speed reaching 70- 80 kmph gusting to 90 kmph is likely on December 8. Squally winds reaching 40- 50 kmph gusting to 60 kmph is likely along and off Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, south
Andhra Pradesh and north  Sri Lanka coasts from December 8, increasing to 60-70 kmph gusting
to 80 kmph from December 8 evening to December 9 morning. It is likely to reduce to 45-55 kmph gusting to 65 kmph by December 9 evening, the IMD added. While the system is unlikely to have any impact on Odisha, the MeT office has forecast a fall in night temperature in the state by about
2°C. “A tropical low over the south Andaman Sea will strengthen to a depression in the next day or so & can become a cyclonic storm before threatening Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu & Puducherry late this week,” leading meteorologist Jason Nicholls tweeted .

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