75 trains cancelled due to Cyclone Jawad
India | December 04, 2021 12:48 ISTFurther, 38 trains scheduled to depart on Dec 5 and one on Dec 6 have also been cancelled as a precautionary measure.
Further, 38 trains scheduled to depart on Dec 5 and one on Dec 6 have also been cancelled as a precautionary measure.
India Meteorological Department (IMD) informed that low pressure region in the Bay of Bengal is expected to intensify into Cyclone Jawad and is expected to reach coast of North Andhra Pradesh – Odisha around morning of Saturday 4th December 2021, with the wind speed ranging upto 100 kmph.
IMD said that the low-pressure area in the south Andaman Sea will intensify into a depression and move towards the coast as a cyclonic storm on December 4.
The IMD said that the low-pressure area brewing over the south Andaman Sea and the adjoining area will intensify into a depression and take the shape of a cyclonic storm around December 3.
The cyclone quickly lost strength and forecasters downgraded it to a tropical storm. It left flooding and other damage, forcing some to evacuate their homes.
It is a rare instance that one cyclone that formed over the Bay of Bengal has traversed the breadth of the country to reach the west coast and again intensify into a cyclone.
The IMD said a low pressure area -- a remnant of Cyclone Gulab -- was formed over south Gujarat region and adjoining Gulf of Khambhat on Wednesday morning.
Hurricanes and typhoons are among the most destructive natural disasters worldwide and potentially threaten about 150 million people each year. Adding to climate change, population growth further drives tropical cyclone exposure, especially in coastal areas of East African countries and the US.
On Monday, light to moderate rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy and extremely heavy rainfall (more than 20 cms) at isolated places is very likely over south Chhattisgarh.
The landfall was made at Miduguda and Tokali villages near Kalingapatnam town in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh, an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said.
The landfall process of cyclone Gulab started on Sunday evening, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. As per the latest meteorological observations, the cloud bands have touched the coastal regions and thus the landfall process has commenced over north coastal Andhra Pradesh and adjoining south coastal Odisha.
The cyclone, the second to hit the state in four months after ‘Yaas’ wreaked havoc in May, is likely to make landfall between Gopalpur and Kalingapatanam in Andhra Pradesh around midnight, the India Meteorological Department said.
The Odisha government has announced the closing down of schools and other educational institutions in 11 districts in view of the cyclonic storm 'Gulab'.
Warnings have been issued in parts of southern Odisha that are likely to be heavily affected by the cyclonic storm Gulab.
The Odisha government has already mobilised men and machinery and launched an evacuation drive in seven identified districts in the southern parts of the state.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a cyclone warning for north Andhra Pradesh and adjoining south Odisha coasts.
"The majority of the damage was driven from the impacts associated with Super Cyclone Amphan, amounting to $13.9 billion," said the report prepared by the American Meteorology Society.
Mamata Banerjee regretted that the Centre did not provide even a small part of the Rs 20,000 crore relief package sought by the state.
Just a few days earlier, West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar wrote to Mamata Banerjee complaining about her “studied silence” on cases of post-election violence in the state.
The method aims to identify initial traces of pre-cyclonic eddy vortices in the atmospheric column, prior to satellite detection over ocean surface, and track its spatio-temporal evolution, DST said.
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