Bhubaneswar: The downturn over Bay of Bengal will strengthen into a typhoon Asani in the following not many hours. The India Meteorological Department (IMD)informed in a late-night tweet, that the downturn is anticipated to move “northwards along and off Andaman and Nicobar Islands”.
“The Depression over southeast BoB close to scope 10.9°N and longitude 93.2°E, around 200 km north-upper east of Car Nicobar(Nicobar Islands), 100 km south-southeast of Port Blair(Andaman Islands). To increase into a profound discouragement in next 12 hrs and into a cyclonic tempest in next 12 hrs,” the tweet read.
IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra informed that the typhoon won’t make landfall in the Andaman Islands. “The climate framework would move almost toward the north along and off the Andaman Islands towards Myanmar and connecting south Bangladesh coast,” he said.
As indicated by IMD expectations, light to direct precipitation/thundershower at most places with weighty to exceptionally weighty precipitation at a couple of spots and segregated incredibly weighty precipitation are possible over the Andaman Islands.
Around 150 National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) staff have apparently been sent and are prepared at various areas.
The climate division had prompted anglers not to wander into the southeast Bay of Bengal as well as into the Andaman Sea and along and off Andaman and Nicobar between March 19 and 21. The anglers have likewise been encouraged to remain off East Central Bay of Bengal between March 21 and 22 and into North East Bay of Bengal on March 22.
Quite on March 16, IMD DG had informed that Odisha is probably not going to observe precipitation or weighty breezes as there is no effect of the tornado Asani on the State.