Cyclone Kyarr Likely to Form over Arabian Sea in Next Two Days; West Coast Under Red Warning
By TWC India Edit Team 6 hours ago TWC India Police personnel urge people to maintain safe distance from the shoreline on the Arabian Sea coast in Mumbai (Photo: SL Shanth Kumar/BCCL Mumbai) The first cyclone of the post-monsoon season is all set to form over the Arabian Sea in another 48 hours. The system, currently a depression over the east-central Arabian sea, will be named Kyarr once it intensifies into a cyclonic storm. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) reports that the system intensified into a well-marked low-pressure area on Wednesday. The forecast suggests that the system is likely to move east-northeastwards slowly and stay in the east-central Arabian Sea till Friday or Saturday. After that, the intensifying storm is expected to drift west-northwestwards towards the Arabian Peninsula. Coupled with a well-marked low-pressure area lying over coastal Andhra Pradesh, the depression is likely to bring widespread rainfall with isolated very heavy falls over Konkan, Goa and coastal Karnataka on Thursday. The intensity of rainfall is likely to increase with the possibility of extremely heavy rains over these regions on Friday. The IMD has also warned that strong winds of up to 75 kmph along and off Maharashtra coast and fishers are adviced not to venture into the sea. The IMD has issued an orange alert for districts along the west coast in Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka for Thursday. The warning level has been increased to a 'red' level for Friday as the chances of extremely heavy rains prevail. The rainfall intensity is likely to drop after Saturday as the storm steers away towards the Arabian coast. Naming the next cyclone in north Indian ocean as Kyarr was a suggestion by Myanmar. The naming follows the guidelines set by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), which stipulates that the names for a cyclone in any ocean basin must be suggested by the countries in the region. For the north Indian Ocean, eight countries suggest the names, including India. While the Maldives named the previous cyclone 'Hikaa', India named the cyclone that formed over the Arabian Sea in June this year, as 'Vayu'. https://weather.com/en-IN/india/news/news/2019-10-24-cyclone-kyarr-form-arabian-sea-west-coast-red-warning -- FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 AUDIO: https://archive.org/details/goa1556 TEXT: http://bit.ly/2SBx41G PIX: http://bit.ly/2Rs1xhl Can't get through on mobile? Please SMS/WhatsApp
