Now its Cyclone Nilam - Showing signs of moving N-W

1pm, Latest satellite visible shot shows that the core is still near N-E Srilanka coast.
Now it's named as Cyclone Nilam.
Pressure  ::  993mb
Wind  ::   Upto 75 km/hr

IMD warning at 11am IST

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The deep depression over southwest Bay of Bengal remained practically stationary and intensified

into Cyclonic storm ‘NILAM’.It lay centred at  0830 hours IST of today, the 30

th

 October 2012 near latitude 

9.0

0

N  and  longitude  82.0

0

E,  about  500  km  south-southeast  of  Chennai  and  100  km  east-northeast  of 

Trincomalee (Sri Lanka). The system would move northwestwards and cross north Tamil Nadu and adjoining 

south Andhra Pradesh coast between Nagapattinam and Nellore by 31

st 

 October, 2012 afternoon/evening.

NOGAPS model predicts a central & North Tamilnadu coast landfall on evening of 31-Oct