Monday, May 13, 2013

Cyclone "Mahasen" - Drifted W-N-W again, Nearing Chennai, South Andhra !! ??

Going by 4:30pm, Satellite IR image, During the past 4hrs, the Cyclone seems to have drifted W-N-W again.


Now its "Too close for comfort" for North Tamilnadu and South,central Andhra coast.
5pm, Chennai RADAR shows the nearest HUGE cloud mass of the Cyclone is seen around 200 km East from city.

#######  UPDATED at 7:50pm  ##########################################
IMD warning at 7:30pm IST
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Cyclonic Storm, MAHASEN over southeast Bay of Bengal
The cyclonic storm MAHASEN over southeast Bay of Bengal moved westwards with
a speed of about 10 kmph during past 6 hrs and lay centred at 1730 hrs IST of 13th May 2013 
near latitude 12.00 N and longitude 86.00 E, about 800 km northwest of Car Nicobar, 650 km 
northeast of Trincomalee, 650 km east-southeast of Chennai and 1280 km south-southwest of 
Chittagong. It would move initially northwards during next 12 hours and thereafter recurve 
towards Bangladesh-Myanmar coast.


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