Murasu
It is predicted to hit land at some point between Chennai and Vijayawada, travel through Andhra and head towards Hyderabad. Kolkata: A second cyclone is likely to make landfall on the Andhra Pradesh coast on Monday, less than a week after Cyclone Arnab hit the same coastline. It started brewing as a well-marked low-pressure area over South Andaman Sea and Andaman & Nicobar Islands and moved west-northwestwards and lay over Southeast Bay of Bengal on Saturday morning.
“Thereafter, it is very likely to intensify further into a cyclonic storm during the subsequent 24 hours, move west-northwestwards and reach over west-central Bay of Bengal near Andhra Pradesh coast around the evening of Nov 2,” said the bulletin. Once it forms, it will be called Cyclone Murasu. It moved west-northwestwards and concentrated into a depression late on Saturday, according to a bulletin issued by the Regional Meteorological Centre.
On the morning of Oct 28, Cyclone Arnab hit land between Andhra Pradesh and Yanam coasts between Bapatla and Visakhapatnam with a maximum wind speed of 110-115 kmph, gusting to 140 kmph during the forenoon of Wednesday, more than 700 km from Kolkata. You Can Also Check: Gold Rate in Kolkata | Silver Rate in Kolkata | Bank Holidays in Kolkata | Public Holidays in Kolkata | Kolkata AQI | Weather in Kolkata | Petrol Price in Kolkata | Diesel Price in Kolkata | CNG Price in Kolkata | LPG Price in Kolkata Stay updated with the latest Kolkata news.
We expect some clouds and light, sporadic rain, though,” said RMC weather scientist Sourish Bandyopadhyay. So far, the impact on Bengal is predicted to be ‘negligible’. “It would be even less than what Arnab had triggered. Once this system successfully intensifies into a named cyclonic storm, it will take the next designation from the regional WMO/ESCAP naming list for the North Indian Ocean, which is Murasu (a name proposed by India). Download the TOI App.